From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 26 08:35:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25797 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25711 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA21300; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:34:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199806261534.JAA21300@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: I'm burning... In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Jun 25, 98 04:13:44 pm" To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:34:52 -0600 (MDT) Cc: ian@gamespot.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom wrote... > > > error 6: panic: cannot mount root > > > > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it > > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this > > installation? > > Most likely /etc/fstab is wrong. Device names have changed a bit with > CAM, so the root device is probably /dev/da0s1a (or something similar). Device names have changed with CAM, but a common misconception is that you *have* to change the entries in /etc/fstab. That isn't true. This is from my primary CAM development box: {roadwarrior:/usr/home/ken:4:0} df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0s2a 63503 52742 5681 90% / devfs 16 16 0 100% dummy_mount /dev/sd0s2e 198399 25991 156537 14% /var /dev/sd0s2f 3290562 2971125 56193 98% /usr /dev/sd1s1a 4304834 3131673 828775 79% /a procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc The only device names that have changed are sd (now da) and st (now sa). Since the major and minor numbers are the same, you don't have to change your fstab at all. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message