Upgrade to 4.8 STABLE - Root mount failed: 6

[Doug White]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Brent Macnaughton wrote:

> I am trying to upgrade my system from 4.7RELEASE to 4.8STABLE. I have
> followed the instructions from the manual:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
> Right now, I am on step 21.4.8 Reboot into Single User Mode. I have compiled
> my new kernel, and I was trying to reboot into single user mode to test the
> new kernel. When I do this, I get the following error message:
>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> no such device 'da'

Did it actually scan the SCSI bus and attach the disks? Or did you somehow
omit 'da'? :)

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