From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 21 12: 1: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1AB14DF7; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p21-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.150]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id FAA21391; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:00:46 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38384DB9.AF5FC02A@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:53:29 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Mike Smith , sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root mount failed:22 ??? References: <102.943174393@verdi.nethelp.no> <199911210851.AAA03911@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991121110519.A38340@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > 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. Loader/kernel environment variables are not sysctls. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony, since there'd been a pronounced shortage of them in his own life; however, nothing but peace and harmony, forever and forever? He wasn't sure about that. And no beer? Very dubious proposition." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message