Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:08:20 +0200 From: Kjell Midtseter <kmidtset@c2i.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot error on R5.0 Message-ID: <20030529080820.GC1726@tina.la3sg.net>
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When booting the boot sequence ends with: ------------- mounting root from ufs: /dev/ad0s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mount root: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 mountroot> -------------- When I enter 'ufs:ad0a' after the prompt I get a login prompt. When I log in as root I receive a '%' prompt, and I can enter commands etc.. --------------------------------------------------------------- Background: I want to update my firewall to use the new pf packet filter port. This requires FreeBSD 5.0 It is not practical to recompile kernel & world on the firewall box. So I do all the work on a more powerfull box and transfer the new system to a disk that I then move to the firewall where I then get the above error message. After building and testing the new system I - move all required files to directories under /mybsd - build a disk image with bootstrap and partitioning - insert my files from /mybsd into the disk image - use dd to copy the image to the firewall disk The only difference from FreeBSD 4.x that I can see is that my /mybsd/dev is not populated. In 4.x I copied MAKEDEV from /dev to /mybsd/dev and used 'sh MAKEDEV all' to populate my new /dev So what is this rootvp? Regards from Kjell
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