XENHVM ada -> ad ?

[Sean Bruno]

On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 01:31 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have the feeling I'm missing something very basic here:
> 
> I have a 9-STABLE-amd64 (as of a few minutes ago, but I see the same
> thing with older versions) running as guest on Xen HVM (APIC, ACPI on).
> 
> I can boot the GENERIC kernel, but trying to boot the XENHVM kernel
> results in 
>  trying to mount root from ufs: /dev/ada0p2 [rw] ...
>  mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ada0p2 ...
>  Mounting from ufs:/dev/ada0p2 failed with error 19.
> 
> I can:
>  mountroot> ufs:ad0p2
> and it breaks there, of course.
> 
> Do I need to translate from 'ada' back to 'ad' if I use XENHVM? Why?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 


Yes.  adaX-->adX.  Look at the dmesg on bootup.

Sean