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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:11:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa)
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote:

> For those who do not know what I am talking about, this is what is
> happening to me:
>
>
> I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right,
> except that on boot it cannot mount root.
>
> It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message.
>
> Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem
> specification., like this:
>
> <fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>
> eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>
> ? List valid disk boot devices
>
> <empty line> abort manual imput
>
> mountroot>
>
>
> The HD where FreeBSD is installed is ad2 in my previous kernel and in
> this new one it is ad1. I have now found out that this is the source of
> the problem. I checked the partition table, and the slices are called
> ad2s2a ---> ad2s2g. If this is the case, no way I can mount root on a
> disk called ad1 with those slices.
I admit, I never tried it, but can't such problems be repaired
using the boot and fixit floppies (or the installation cd-rom)?
You could either access the disklabel editor or mount your root
partition and edit /etc/fstab with ee.

Just an idea.

Uli.

>
> So, I'll pose a different question. Do you know of a possible way I can
> make my new kernel to spot my HD as ad2? To me this is the only solution
> possible.
>
>
>
> Teilhard Knight
> The Extraterrestrial
>
> Who ate my sandwich?
>
>
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