Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:41:11 -0600 (CST) From: Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: trouble booting Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980313092857.24726A-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
My recent CVSUP from 3/9 on seems to give me trouble when I'm booting. My computer's hard disk has two partitions one for DOS and one for FreeBSD. The Make World and re-making the kernel go alright, but when I boot, the kernel tells me it is switching the root device to wd0s3a. At this point it seems to fsck the disks but then gives the message that the "filesystem failed to mount" and puts me in single user mode with a read-only root filesystem. Luckily the previous kernel still boots correctly. This allowed the correct specification of devices is fstab, (wd0s2a for root device, wd0s3a causing the system to not do anything) but when I reboot the machine it still gives me the same error about the filesystem failing. When I try to remount root it tells me that wd0s2a doesn't match mounted device, but yet if I mount wd0s2a on /mnt, it _is_ the root partition. I thought a new make world and kernel would solve this problem, but it hasn't. I'm sorry for being so ignorant on what to do, but could someone please help me get my system to boot on something besides an old kernel? Trenton Schulz twschulz@cord.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.96.980313092857.24726A-100000>