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Date:      Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:38:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
To:        Charles Martin <martin@chasm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: root mount failed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007231532120.21380-100000@snafu.adept.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000723142403.00b48150@chasm.org>

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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Charles Martin wrote:

> no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0300000)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
> no such device 'ad'
> setrootbyname failed
> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount failed: 6

Uhh...  What is (or, better yet, isn't) in your new kernel?  This looks 
like your kernel isn't recognizing your ATAPI disks...  I.E. there's no
driver in your kernel.  Boot kernel.old, RTFM /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT,
try again.

Specifically...  I've seen people misread LINT's comment:

	# You only need one "device ata" for it to find all
	# PCI ATA/ATAPI devices on modern machines.

Then go out and compile a kernel with only 'device ata' in it.  With no
'atadisk' line, ad* isn't detected, so...  no / for you.

-mrh



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