Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Alastair Rankine <alastair@cia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970714212304.754B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v03110702aff078b84010@[203.3.122.67]>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Alastair Rankine wrote: > I installed a SCSI disk into my box the other day, and put FreeBSD 2.2.2 > onto it. Previously it was running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on the IDE disk. All works > just fine except that I can't seem to get it to remember where to mount the > root file system. The only way to start it up at present is to type > "1:sd(0,a)kernel" at the boot prompt. > > I have tried recompiling my kernel to tell it that root should be on sd0: > > config kernel root on sd0 > > .. but for some reason it tries to mount the root filesystem on sd1, not > sd0. Then panics because I don't have an sd1. > > I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the problem also happens if I boot > with "sd(0,a)kernel", that is without the "1:" prefix. > > Any suggestions? Try adding 1:sd(0,a)/kernel to /boot.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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