Root mounting

[Gary Schenk]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 03:55 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> I just subscribed to the list. I am running release 4.8.
> I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right,
> except that on boot it cannot mount root.
>
> It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message.
> then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure
> message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done
> because I added the line:
> options    ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the
> root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code.
>
> Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem
> specification., like this:
>
> <fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>
> eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>
> ? List valid disk boot devices
>
> <empty line> abort manual imput
>
> mountroot>
>
>
> What to do now? I haven't been able to guess the right input, and I
> haven't been able to fix the kernel. I have erased all filesystem
> types from my configuration, except FFS.
>
>
> Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have
> FreeBDS installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Teilhard Knight
> The Extraterrestrial
>
> Who ate my sandwich?
>

What you should do now is send this into the questions mailing list. 
they are helpful and knowledgeable over there.

Good luck,
Gary