Date: 13 May 2003 17:55:09 -0500 From: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> To: Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Root mounting Message-ID: <1052866503.11481.3.camel@arlette.love.dad>
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I just subscribed to the list. I am running release 4.8. 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. then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done because I added the line: options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code. 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> What to do now? I haven't been able to guess the right input, and I haven't been able to fix the kernel. I have erased all filesystem types from my configuration, except FFS. Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have FreeBDS installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1. Cheers. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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