From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 8:50:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.merconic.com (mail.merconic.com [62.96.220.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59D1537B404 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16112 invoked by uid 306); 17 Apr 2002 15:50:49 -0000 Received: from scotty.ds9 (192.168.2.100) by uhura.ds9 with SMTP; 17 Apr 2002 15:50:46 -0000 Received: by scotty.ds9 (Postfix, from userid 754) id C622858374; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:50:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:50:45 +0200 From: Marc Heckmann To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "boot -a" broken? Message-ID: <20020417155045.GB15892@merconic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I'm not subscribed to the list, please CC me directly] Hi, I've got 4.5-STABLE setup here with vinum as per the Vinum bootstrapping howto (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html). I have ad0s1a which is "/" and ad2s1a which is mounted on /rootback, it's an exact copy of the "/" filesystem. I wanted to try one of the failure scenarios from the howto (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/failures.html) so I shutdown the machine, unplugged the ad0 drive. The machine found the boot loader on ad2 and I have a prompt.. so far so good.. I do "boot -as" so that I can manually tell the kernel which root filesystem to mount. here is what I get: ad2: 95396MB [193821/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a <---- NOTE this ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad2s1a Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Root mount failed: 6 panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. Why is it still trying to use ad0s1a as the root when I explicitly told it to use /dev/ad2s1a? Any ideas. thanks in advance. -m -- m. heckmann. -- merconic GmbH, Chausseestr. 128-129, D-10115 Berlin (Mitte) Telefon +49-30-726265-200, Fax +49-30-726265-211, Durchwahl -200 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message