Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:43:48 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Hodges <hajime@vnet.net> To: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Free Unix Users of New Mexico <fuunm@data.netdot.net> Subject: Re: Trouble with kernel from FreeBSD-stable (2.2.6-beta?) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980315152635.3148D-100000@katie.vnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980315124605.6897A-100000@viper.cs.unm.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980315124605.6897A-100000@viper.cs.unm.edu>
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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Colin Eric Johnson wrote: > I've been trying to follow, via cvsup, the freebsd-stable branch. I just > rebuilt the kernel on my machine and I've run into a problem that I'm not > sure what to do about. > Make sure you have cvsup'ed recently. Then be sure to make world. > I'm using the same config file that I used with the 2.2.5-release source > and that kernel works just fine. When I build the kernel and boot I get > the following: > > the kernel is labeled: 2.2.6-beta #0 > Rebuild the kernel before you reboot. > Once all of the devices have been found and checked this new kernel > attempts to change the device that root is on: > > changing root device to: wd0s2a I am unclear why this is wd0s2a instead of wd0s1a if the latter is really your root partition. > > it then mounts swap and then begins the fsck. at this point it give the > following error > > /dev/wd0a on /: specified device does not match mounted device. > The compatability slice wd0a is going away and the code to mount root on the actual slice has been put in place. > Now, I understand that it is trying to mount a different device then what > I have specified in the config file: > > config kernel root on wd0 > > What I am not at all sure about is why this is. Have the config options > changed with the the stable branch? Am I missing something from the config > file for the kernel? My disks look like this: > Change /etc/fstab to reflect the actual slice root is to be mounted from: /dev/wd0s1a or wd0s2a .... Again before you reboot. > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0a 180495 43910 122146 26% / > /dev/wd1s1e 1205727 944425 164844 85% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 149279 4360 132977 3% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > Looks like should be /dev/wd0s1a from your note below but wd0s2a from the kernel message above ???? Also you should update the /dev/MAKEDEV script from /usr/src/etc/etc.i386 and them make your boot device. > the actual slices on my first disk are > wd0s1a / > wd0s1b swap > wd0s1e /var > > ? > > Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ > ``Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.'' > -Stanislaw Lem "King Globare and the Sages" > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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