mountroot

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Franco Vitali" <francovitali at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using some old Pentium PCs, to install and test FreeBSD 6.2
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> Te problem I have is when I move the HD containing the OS to another
> machine, I'm prompted to specify the root partition.
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> I've checked the /etc/fstab file and everything is ok.
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> I modified /boot/loader.conf with:
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> rootdev="ad0s1a" and "/dev/ad0s1a" (the same in /etc/fstab)
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> But I keep prompted to mount the root manually when the OS boots:
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> Mounroot> ufs:ad0s1a
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> What can I do? The only solution I can think is to reinstall the system in
> the new machine, but for other reasons I need to keep the installed OS.

There aren't any SCSI disks in this machine, are there?  That can
complicate things a bit.

Have you tried setting root_disk_unit?