Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:01:51 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB key with -CURRENT, but /root not found on one laptop Message-ID: <20090421070151.GA5512@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <200904210837.57231.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20090421061411.GA4047@rebelion.Sisis.de> <200904210837.57231.hselasky@c2i.net>
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El día Tuesday, April 21, 2009 a las 08:37:56AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky escribió: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've a boot-able USB key with -CURRENT from which I have booted and > > installed fine my small EeePC. I now wanted to update with the same > > procedure the laptop of my wife (which still runs RELENG_7) to make her > > happy access to the wonderful world of -CURRENT :-) > > ... > > > > mountroot> > > > > typing at prompt mountroot>: ufs:da0s1a > > > > brings up menu again and again > > > > Why the kernel does not see da0s1a to mount the root filesystem? > > There are some known issues in this area. I think Andrew Thompson is currently > working on these issues. Would it be an option to just boot from a 71R CD into the rescue system, mount the USB key as /mnt, chroot to it and install as # chroot /mnt /bin/sh # fdisk -I ad4 # fdisk -B ad4 # bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto # bsdlabel -B ad4s1 # newfs /dev/ad4s1a # mkdir /disk # mount /dev/ad4s1a /disk # make installworld DESTDIR=/disk # make installkernel DESTDIR=/disk KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t # make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=/disk # make distribution DESTDIR=/disk # echo /dev/ad4s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /disk/etc/fstab ... ? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.
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