Root mounting
Teilhard Knight
teilhk at Phreaker.net
Tue May 13 15:54:50 PDT 2003
I just subscribed to the list. I am running release 4.8.
I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right,
except that on boot it cannot mount root.
It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message.
then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure
message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done because
I added the line:
options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the
root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code.
Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem
specification., like this:
<fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> abort manual imput
mountroot>
What to do now? I haven't been able to guess the right input, and I
haven't been able to fix the kernel. I have erased all filesystem types
from my configuration, except FFS.
Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have FreeBDS
installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1.
Cheers.
Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial
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