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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:29:40 -0600
From:      Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
To:        yuri@rawbw.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to mount mfsroot?
Message-ID:  <j2zade45ae91004221729lf15f516bja6c8205ba9b6a2f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BD0DA42.4090201@rawbw.com>
References:  <4BD0DA42.4090201@rawbw.com>

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On 4/22/10, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> 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.



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