Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 01:41:36 -0400 From: david <sarr0006@algonquincollege.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-stable won't boot Message-ID: <392CBD10.9D8413D@algonquincollege.com> References: <200005250335.UAA04703@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just did a cvsup to RELENG_4 about noon EST today (Wed), built world, > > installed a new kernel, and rebooted. now, when I boot, I get the > > following: > ... > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a > > no such device 'ad' > > Sounds like you left the 'ad' device out of your new kernel config. Bad > idea. 8) > That turns out to be exactly what the problem was. For some reason, I had commented out the ATA entries in the kernel config file. I had noticed this, but repeated config-make-make installs hadn't had any effect. Your response told me that I was looking in the right area. It turns out that I had to do "config -r" in order to get the ATA code into the kernel. In any event, it works now, thanks a million! David Sarrazin > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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