From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 7 13:33:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from klentaq1.emergingtech.org (klentaq1.emergingtech.org [199.217.151.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FAA15892 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stabilizer@klentaq1.emergingtech.org) Received: (from stabilizer@localhost) by klentaq1.emergingtech.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA17365; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:35:25 GMT (envelope-from stabilizer) From: Wayne M Barnes Message-Id: <199904071435.OAA17365@klentaq1.emergingtech.org> Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE install: changing root device to both wd2s1a and wd2a In-Reply-To: <199904072012.PAA09860@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> from Rich Winkel at "Apr 7, 1999 3:12:20 pm" To: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:35:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Stable) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Rich, This sort of happened to me, once. I accidentally installed onto wd2, and then after booting part way, it said 'changing root device to wd1a' which is sort of the opposite of what is happening to you. Part of the cure was to halt the boot during a pause that it gives you, and get a list of commands (by typing 'help'), I think. There was a command in there that went something like 'set root device to wd2s1a' Then it booted from my correct drive. Unfortunately, after replugging my drive to controller 1, so it was now wd1, my etc/fstab was pointing to the wrong drive. The cure to that was to mount /dev/wd1a /mnt which is a loophole that allows you to mount the same partition writable which was readonly. I hope noone fixes this loophole. I was never able to get vi working in this mode so I could edit /etc/fstab, so I copied an fstab file from a floppy. Unfortunatley, /dev/wd1s1a thru f were not in /dev, and the /stand/sysinstall refused to create them. I think I went to /mnt/dev and did a 'sh MAKEDEV wd1s1a' , which created a thru f. Or maybe I had to replug to controller 2 (back to wd2a) and then do this. I apologize for imperfections in my memory of the above. I have not gone so far as to reboot my system to watch for the exact syntax of the boot option commands, for instance. Hope this helps some, anyway. Wayne M Barnes stabilizer@klentaq1.emergingtech.org > I'm trying to talk a friend through the CD install on the phone. The > install appears to go fine, but when he reboots, it says: > changing root device to wd2s1a > AND > changing root device to wd2a > before panicing with "can't mount /" > Has anyone seen this before? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message