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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:24:41 -0500
From:      Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Steve Proctor <sproctor@calweb.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mount Failure!
Message-ID:  <19990125012441.A16471@palomine.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901250505251.348-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:11:26AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901242034520.12510-100000@web1.calweb.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901250505251.348-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:11:26AM +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Steve Proctor wrote:
> 
> >"MOUNT: /dev/wd0s1a on /: specified device does not match mounted device
> >Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted"
> 
> I am a bit fuzzy on the precise details of this. The problem is with
> compatibilty slice naming and mount. Some changes have been made and I am
> not sure that I am fully up to snuff yet.
> 
> YMMV!!!
> 
> Try 
> 'boot -s'
> 'fsck /dev/wd0a' or 'fsck /dev/wd0s1a'to make sure it's clean
> 'mount /dev/wd0a /' or 'mount /dev/wd0s1a /'
> 'mount -u /'
> mount your /usr partition
> 'vi /etc/fstab'
> change your root partition to wd0a instead os wd0s1a
> 
> I just did this ten minutes ago. Something seems fishy about the whole
> thing but it is working for me.

You'll probably have the same problem the next time you cvsup. I got bitten by
this earlier today, and it looks like it was fixed later in the day. I
re-cvsupped and things work like they did before-- /dev/wd0s1a is mounted on
/, not /dev/wd0a.

Chris

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