The last push

[Teilhard Knight]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 23:12, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:31, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > On 13 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > You shouldn't have "options ROOTDEVNAME", you don't need it, and its
> > actually causing problems in this case.
> 
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> 
> Yes, I figured that up myself, and I erased it already.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Did you try '?' to "List valid disk boot devices"?
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> 
> 
> No, I haven't. I will now.




Oh, I lie, of course I have tried that. It lists a set of devices like
"mem" and many otjers I do not understand, but seems to me that are
devices like floppy, cd, etc.



Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial

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