ask about manual root filesystem specification

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Sat May 3 06:14:20 UTC 2014


On May 2, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Paul Darius <paul at ranahminang.net> wrote:

> hi there,
> 
> during the first boot after dd into the sdcard, i asked about manual
> root filesystem specification.

What board are you trying to boot?

> the couple lines before that questions are :
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mmcsd0s2a [rw,noatime]...
> mountroot: wating for device /dev/mmcsd02a ...
> Mointing from ufs:/dev/mmcsd0s2a failed with error 19.
> 
> what should I type at mountroot> ?

This generally means that the kernel is unable
to access the SD card because of some random
timing variation.

On some boards, rebooting will usually fix it.

Tim



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