Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 01:34:48 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root Message-ID: <19980322013448.19287@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <35145B61.41C67EA6@hiwaay.net>; from Steve Price on Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 06:29:21PM -0600 References: <35145B61.41C67EA6@hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 06:29:21PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > Hi All, > > I finally decided to try a March 12th kernel and > have been unsuccessful in getting it to work. Here > is my /etc/fstab for a kernel from around February > 25th. It seems OK to run true -current now. > $ cat /etc/fstab > /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0s2 none swap sw 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/wd1s1 /u ufs rw 1 1 > $ > > I have tried changing /dev/wd0a to /dev/wd0s1 but > to no avail. You want /dev/wd0s1a for the above case, I guess. > The really odd thing is that the > kernel says something like this on startup > > setting root_device to /dev/wd0s2a This is due to a bug in the kernel. If I understood correctly, it is fairly hard to fix properly (and doesn't have any ill effects). It only affect what is printed. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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