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Date:      Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:25:45 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Tom Jackson <toj@silverback.gorilla.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... 
Message-ID:  <199810040725.AAA02590@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:38:57 CDT." <19981004003857.A329@TOJ.org> 

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> > Try other slices, eg: 'ls disk1s1a:'.  It's not unlikely that there's a 
> > miscalculation in the slice numbering somewhere.
> > 
> 
> I first wanted to try my Thinkpad with a dangerously dedicated ide and the
> src and obj nfs mounted from the server (the one that doesn't work). The
> Thinkpad works fine.
> 
> The server, asus p2l97-ds w/ 1005 bios, does indeed have another partition
> before FBSD. 1 is w95, 2 is FBSD boot, and 3 is FBSD. I tried ls'ing every-
> thing I could think of and nothing works. I'll include the fdisk and disklabel.
> 
> Any suggestion on what to try?

Hang back and watch for some more commits - I appear to have made some 
mistakes in the 'guess what the root device is' code.  On a box I just 
booted with quite old bootblocks, I get the "Can't work out which disk 
we are booting from" message, and the default device is 'disk-1a'.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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