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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ROOTVP 
Message-ID:  <20031001183008.H74468@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <005501c386a1$d4ceb8c0$6501a8c0@Buster>
References:  <005501c386a1$d4ceb8c0$6501a8c0@Buster>

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> >During the boot process, if I press the spacebar to abort loading of the
> >kernel, I can do an ls and see the files on the drive. As soon as the kernel
> >tries to mount root , I get this:
> >
> >Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> >setrootbyname failed
> >ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> >Root mount failed: 6
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
> I am running 5.1  I resent this because they where errors in my mesage ..

Your disk device?  If you have an IDE disk you need the ata* devices.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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