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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:05:19 -0800
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Root mount failed:22 ???
Message-ID:  <19991121110519.A38340@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199911210851.AAA03911@dingo.cdrom.com>; from mike@smith.net.au on Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:51:59AM -0800
References:  <102.943174393@verdi.nethelp.no> <199911210851.AAA03911@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:51:59AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> You're not using the loader, so nothing gets to read /etc/fstab and set 
> vfs.root.mountfrom.  Thus the kernel can't use it to find the root 
> filesystem.  I should probably emit a diagnostic to the effect that it 
> wasn't set, since in many cases to come that will be fatal for the boot 
> process.

I just rebuild/reinstall -current /kernel and /sys/boot and update
bootblocks via disklabel, as result diagnostic
in question gone, but I _not_ see vfs.root.mountfrom variable in my
sysctl -a output.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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