Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:53:29 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root mount failed:22 ??? Message-ID: <38384DB9.AF5FC02A@newsguy.com> References: <102.943174393@verdi.nethelp.no> <199911210851.AAA03911@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991121110519.A38340@freebsd.org>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:51:59AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > You're not using the loader, so nothing gets to read /etc/fstab and set ^^^^^^ > > vfs.root.mountfrom. Thus the kernel can't use it to find the root > > filesystem. I should probably emit a diagnostic to the effect that it > > wasn't set, since in many cases to come that will be fatal for the boot > > process. > > I just rebuild/reinstall -current /kernel and /sys/boot and update > bootblocks via disklabel, as result diagnostic > in question gone, but I _not_ see vfs.root.mountfrom variable in my > sysctl -a output. Loader/kernel environment variables are not sysctls. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony, since there'd been a pronounced shortage of them in his own life; however, nothing but peace and harmony, forever and forever? He wasn't sure about that. And no beer? Very dubious proposition." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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