Can't Mount Root

[Chuck Swiger]

Ima Camper wrote:
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> da0 is my boot disk and contains /.  However when I
> configured the disk using sysinstall during
> installation, I set it up as "dangerously dedicated". 
> Now I wonder if my problem is that I should have used
> "bsdlabel -B /dev/da0" instead of "da0s1a" when
> attempting to install boot blocks?

I suspect your device name ought to be /dev/da0a.
If you are at the boot prompt, what happens if you enter a "?"...?

Anyway, if you tell it the right place, and your fstab is OK, you ought to boot 
into the system as normal, from which point you can re-run bsdlabel with the 
right device name.

Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the command from a shell.  You 
can also begin a custom install and exit after wrws; g just a new boot block 
via sysinstall, too.

-- 
-Chuck