Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:16:59 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jason Dictos <jason.dictos@tapeware.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help with build world - Can't mount root after bootin from /k ernel Message-ID: <20031016151659.6DC745D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jason Dictos <jason.dictos@tapeware.com> <E50A109EE98AA049BAA09D725DB0714F01118A21@yt-internet.tapeware.com>
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> From: Jason Dictos <jason.dictos@tapeware.com> > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:03:11 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > > Well, > > I am now confronted with this prompt: > > "Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > > >From my old logs I can see that my boot device is ufs:/dev/twed0s1a > > However when I type that in here I get an error (and this probably has > something to do with the error below): > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/twed0s1a > Root mount failed: 22 > > Help?? We are missing some details...like the version you are trying to install. Was it V4 or V5. And, if it was V5, were you updating from a V5 system or a V4 system. If you were updating from a V4 system to a newer V4 system, are you sure you got the tag right in your supfile?(I'm guessing from the symptoms that you were going from V4 to V5, but I can't be sure.) In any case, it looks like a good time to boot the fixit disk. (This is the second CD image from the standard distribution. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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