Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:58:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Don Morrison <bombfree@hotmail.com> Cc: tomdean@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: customising, compiling, and installing the kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330145716.24859O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980329073322.3078.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Don Morrison wrote: > WOOHOO!! I figured it out! <G> It was my /etc/fstab that needed > editing! For some crazy reason, while the GENERIC kernel was running, > mount wouldn't care that my root slice was designated as /dev/wd1a in > /etc/fstab, but with the newly compiled kernel running, it would > complain: > /dev/wd1a on /: Specified device does not match mounted device. > > WIERD. All I had to do was change it to /dev/wd1s1a and voila. The > GENERIC kernel was 2.2.5R, the new kernel (which I'm running now:) is > 2.2.6 (updated through cvsup.) I guess 2.2.6 requires that fstab be > more explicit? Yes -- some work went in just before 2.2.6 came out that removed the compatibility slice. > Anyways, thanks for the help, if you hadn't have pointed me towards > mount I'd be messing around with my config line forever. I guess I had > a hard time separating the kernel messages (stuff you can get back from > dmesg,) and what comes after. The kernel could give a sh*t about > explicitness on my config line; it's still set at wd1! :-) Think that tidbit is in the 2.2.6 ERRATA. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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