Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:20:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to mount root: please help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910301119001.68464-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910301030430.68252-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>
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Please disregard this message, I answered my own question by searching through the archives for a couple of hours, which I should have done in the first place! Thanks anways. For people that may have this same problem the solution was to type set root_disk_unit="4" at the boot prompt. Thanks again, sorry to take up your time! On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Greg Skouby wrote: > Hello, > I am installing FreeBSD 3.3 on IBM netfinity. > I have an interntal SCSI disk of 9 gigs. It is bios disk1 but it > showed up in the FreeBSD install as da4 so that is where I installed it > to. It showed up as da4 because there are 4 23 gig scsi disks attached to > the box via the external scsi. So, the freebsd is on bios disk1 but it is > called da4 inside of freebsd. The root partition is on disk1s1a, however, > when it goes to boot it says "changing root device to da0a" which promptly > follows up to "cannot mount root". How do I get it to boot off of > disk1s1a, and therefore mount root as da4a? Thank you very much. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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