Root mounting

[Teilhard Knight]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 18:37, Gary Schenk wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 03:55 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Who ate my sandwich?
> >
> 
> What you should do now is send this into the questions mailing list. 
> they are helpful and knowledgeable over there.



I have done so. I just thought it would be a good idea to post it here
too. Thanks-


Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial

Who ate my sandwich?