Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:37:28 -0700 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net>, Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Root mounting Message-ID: <200305131637.28067.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1052866503.11481.3.camel@arlette.love.dad> References: <1052866503.11481.3.camel@arlette.love.dad>
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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 03:55 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > 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? > What you should do now is send this into the questions mailing list. they are helpful and knowledgeable over there. Good luck, Gary
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