ROOTVP

[Doug White]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 a-hobbs at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> >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/ad0s1a
> >setrootbyname failed
> >ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> >Root mount failed: 6
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
> I am running 5.1  I resent this because they where errors in my mesage ..

Your disk device?  If you have an IDE disk you need the ata* devices.

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