mouting rootfs fails/devfs_lookup issue

[Juli Mallett]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 09:37, waynegong L <waynegong83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I  tried to boot the kernel ( N64ABI) on one of my  octeon boards, with
> rootfs on the compact flash.

N64 worlds are not currently supported.  N64 kernels will not be able
to run init.

> The booting came to halt when mouting the rootfs, off the cf and dropped to
> mountroot prompt with below error.
> *ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
> If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from
> the loader prompt:
>     set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
> *
> After some debugging, I found that devfs_lookup( ) was not able to find the
> entry cf0s1 in the /dev directory
> and so cameout with ENOENT error. Below is my understanding, Please correct
> me if i am wrong.
> [ ... ]
> -->Flash was partition as below.
> fdisk -vBI /dev/da0
> bsdlabel -w /dev/da0s1
> bsdlabel da0s1
> newfs /dev/da0s1a
>
> Please let me know if i am missing some thing during my configuration.

Your root device is cf0s1a, not cf0s1.