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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 19:30:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@wolfnet.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting an mfs_root partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502192918.21194o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429205530.352A-100000@outreach.wolfnet.org>

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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jason K. Fritcher wrote:

> I am trying to mount the mfs root partition that is in the kernel in the
> PicoBSD package.

mfs != vn.

> I have mfs compiled into my kernel, and have mounted the kernel on
> /dev/vn0 with vnconfig, and when I attempt to mount /dev/vn0s1 into the
> file system, I keep getting an error message from mfs saying it can't
> find a disklabel.

The kernel is not a filesystem, sorry.

generally the vn device is used for making disk images.  Try vnconfiging
the boot.flp sometime.

> This is under 2.2.6-stable from about two weeks ago.

What are you trying to accomplish?  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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