From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 15:58:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6616916A402 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 15:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from moebius444@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc2-s37.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s37.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508F013C459 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 15:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from moebius444@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.155.13]) by bay0-omc2-s37.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:46:06 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 13 May 2007 08:46:06 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 90.33.126.123 by BAY144-DAV3.phx.gbl with DAV; Sun, 13 May 2007 15:46:02 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [90.33.126.123] X-Originating-Email: [moebius444@hotmail.com] X-Sender: moebius444@hotmail.com From: "Olivier Utkala" To: Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 17:46:55 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 May 2007 15:46:06.0914 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1EEAA20:01C79575] Subject: mount problem after the kernel load: Manual root filesystem specification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:58:06 -0000 Hi All, After the kernel load, it's necessary for me to enter the folowing to continue the start process: mountroot> ufs:ad2s1a I find on another machine, wich start correctly, with the same version of FreeBSD, that the last line of command kenv results: vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ad0s1a" On my start-problem machine, these last line don't exists. How can I resolve these problem to start correctly, without enter filesystem specification each time? Thanks in advance for any response. dmesg command results: ================8<-------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (601.37-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x803035 real memory = 469696512 (447 MB) avail memory = 450170880 (429 MB) vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 ums0: Cypress Sem PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. Timecounter "TSC" frequency 601368219 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave UDMA33 ad2: 157066MB at ata1-master UDMA133 Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> ufs:ad2s1a Trying to mount root from ufs:ad2s1a ================8<-------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Olivier Utkala