From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 00:29:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B80106564A for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:29:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com (mail-iw0-f204.google.com [209.85.223.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB448FC14 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn42 with SMTP id 42so5310824iwn.14 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:29:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=djq4oX0w2g/SmTZP3m7n9rI+NdM7wbdR7OH9rC5+lj8=; b=jHmVb61haNZUX13NtfkF45vNFFQVY+RFaQ/LMhzNLZNthaYBYmHsYFQ2lVOtafcAD/ VSM+e5hOQzfKFhWuNKzqoY8AXD9XKHNU6MFCPUuSMoEdLsP/PirD4JdoPfVbwG7wmdtd J+kDZrl3Hmjd/mB6nzszPEhhseIrvbz0bbLrs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=uHzzD6M1F2W/cWfSBFazKOugBz+Eo6aiUEh8/4WUBOYgpETviQXHahMJ+xwqAFpMZD Mi1OB/7sGdITsuRlSWabXJqEYaaki81K8aNPiMSQtQMlBGbKowdvgHrrFVAthDyZA1a+ aDw3JZ/PtyPNoiLKUvzRNCy8ZVQQ/dyUxlGoo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.171.138 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:29:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BD0DA42.4090201@rawbw.com> References: <4BD0DA42.4090201@rawbw.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:29:40 -0600 Received: by 10.231.167.4 with SMTP id o4mr3587597iby.66.1271982580249; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: yuri@rawbw.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to mount mfsroot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:29:41 -0000 On 4/22/10, Yuri wrote: > I am trying to set up NFS install, and need to modify mfsroot to not > load sysinstall. > But vnconfig is disabled in 8.0. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html > suggests using "vnconfig vn0 mfsroot" > But vnconfig is disabled in 8.0. > > So I ran: > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f mfsroot > mount /dev/md0 /mnt/ > And got an error: > mount: /dev/md0 : Invalid argument > > What's wrong? > Yuri How did you create the 'mfsroot' file? Does dumpfs /dev/md0 return any valid info? Do you have any devnodes like /dev/md0s1 or /dev/md0s1a ? There is not enough information in your original statement to diagnose this.