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Date:      Sun, 17 May 1998 10:43:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: autoconf.c:setroot() makes bad calculation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980517104214.17761G-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805171733.NAA00258@fnur.3skel.com>

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did you replace the bootblocks when you went to 2.2.6?

disklabel -B sd1

On Sun, 17 May 1998, Dan Janowski wrote:

> 
> Any clues?
> 
> 2.2.6-RELEASE
> 
> autoconf.c:setroot() finds wrong root device in following:
> 
>   1. booteasy
>   2. boot device, second scsi drive
>   3. second scsi has no slices (raw disklabel)
>   4. config kernel lists sd1a as root
>   5. no IDE in the kernel
>   6. 2 SCSI cards, ahc1 and bt0
> 
>   boot loader finds and pulls in kernel from ufs, kernel
>   inits correctly, at the end it says
>   "changing root device to wd1s4a"
> 
>   Even wierder: boot.config has '-rv' all ignored, I don't
>   get either -r or -v functions during boot. However, it
>   announces the flags in the boot.config notice.
> 
>   If I type in -r at the boot prompt, kernel finds correct
>   root and boots normally.
> 
>   I can boot the system, but it won't autoboot because of
>   the combined wrong root calc and ignore of boot.config.
> 
>   Any idears?
> 
>   Dan
> 
> 
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