Upgrade to 4.8 STABLE - Root mount failed: 6

[Brent Macnaughton]

I had da in my kernel configure file:

device          sym             # NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets)
device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required)
device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
device          pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)


During the boot process, if I press the spacebar to abort loading of the
kernel, I can do an ls and see the files on the drive. As soon as the kernel
tries to mount root , I get this:

Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
no such device 'da'
setrootbyname failed
ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Root mount failed: 6

Any ideas?

Brent.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite at gumbysoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:21 PM
To: Brent Macnaughton
Cc: 'freebsd-stable at FreeBSD.ORG'
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 4.8 STABLE - Root mount failed: 6


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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