Can't boot from ad4: Device Not Configured?

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:37:42PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> b) It doesn't get that far.
>    (The root hasn't yet been mounted, so the
>    contents of /dev would seem to be immaterial.
>    If you can't read the disk, it doesn't really
>    matter what's on it. ;-)

Before root is mounted for real, it is actually mounted.  /sbin/init
attempts to remount / properly using the device listed in /etc/fstab
and will fail to mount it if the entry does not exist in /dev.  I ran
into this exact problem (ad4 and everything) before when I moved my root
disk to a PCI ATA controler.  As I recall the two issues I had where a
bogus fstab entry and not creating all the necessicary entries to get
ad4s1a in /dev.

-- Brooks
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