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Subject: kern/129152: non-userfriendly panic when trying to mount
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>Number:         129152
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       non-userfriendly panic when trying to mount non-existing or wrong rootdev
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 24 22:20:02 UTC 2008
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alex
>Release:        8-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD moshnroll 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #6: Mon Nov 24 21:37:28 CET 2008     root@moshnroll:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL  i386
>Description:
when 8-CURRENT tries to mount a rootdev that doesn't exist or isn't valid (no init) it panics. this isn't very userfriendly! you might consider using the code that is being executed when you boot with the -a switch in this case.

cheers.
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