The last push

[Andy Farkas]

On 13 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote:

> 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.

You shouldn't have "options ROOTDEVNAME", you don't need it, and its
actually causing problems in this case.

> 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?

Did you try '?' to "List valid disk boot devices"?

> Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have FreeBDS
> installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1.

It looks like you want:

mountroot> ufs:ad1s1a


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        Andy Farkas
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