Kernel not mounting root

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> Marius Nünnerich wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I did cvsup to 7-STABLE yesterday, build, installed and booted a new
>> kernel then buildworld.
>> Then I noticed that my PS/2 keyboard is not working at the loader menu
>> so I booted multiuser and did the make installworld part from there.
>> Then I tried to reboot but now it hangs after the line
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
>>
>> It sits there for at least 10min. I tried so far:
>> - Installing 7.1-beta2 on another hd and booting it, it works.
>> - Copied that kernel to the old hd
>> - Moved kernel.old to kernel
>> - fsck everything
>> - mounted everything from the old hd under /mnt, chroot into that, installworld
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this or has an idea what to do next?
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Marius
>
> I encountered something similar with RC-1, yesterday. The installer entered
> the devices ad4s4a till ad4s4f instead of ad4s3a till ad4s3f into the fstab
> file.

That is different ad4s1a would be the right partition in my case.