From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 13 18:55:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10984 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10936; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:55:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA19425; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:55:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:55:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Traina cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumb question about fstab and 226 beta In-Reply-To: <199803140019.QAA01896@red.juniper.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Paul Traina wrote: > Sorry to bug you -- I admit this is a stupid question that should go to > "questions" but it may have 226 release implications I hadn't seen yet > on the mailing list (I'm kinda out of date due to travel). > > If this has already been settled, please accept my apologies. > > I just recently upgraded the kernel on a 225 machine to 226 and > the 226 kernel with 225 /sbin/mount would not allow me to use > /dev/sd0a in my fstab to represent root. I had to change it to > /dev/sd0s1a. It looks like someone broke the compatibility code. > I don't know if it was deliberate or not, probably so, but I think > this is really going to catch people with their pants down. I had this happen when i moved from one version to another some time ago. Looks like your system finally recognized that it's on a sliced disk and thought to update reality. Updating /etc/fstab is the correct thing to do. This may also happen if your devices were rebuilt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message