Re: About my problem

From: P. U. Kruppa (520023893678-0001_at_t-online.de)
Date: 05/14/03

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    Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:11:50 +0200 (CEST)
To: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net>

    On Wed, 14 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote:

    > For those who do not know what I am talking about, this is what is
    > happening to me:
    >
    >
    > I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right,
    > except that on boot it cannot mount root.
    >
    > It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message.
    >
    > 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>
    >
    >
    > The HD where FreeBSD is installed is ad2 in my previous kernel and in
    > this new one it is ad1. I have now found out that this is the source of
    > the problem. I checked the partition table, and the slices are called
    > ad2s2a ---> ad2s2g. If this is the case, no way I can mount root on a
    > disk called ad1 with those slices.
    I admit, I never tried it, but can't such problems be repaired
    using the boot and fixit floppies (or the installation cd-rom)?
    You could either access the disklabel editor or mount your root
    partition and edit /etc/fstab with ee.

    Just an idea.

    Uli.

    >
    > So, I'll pose a different question. Do you know of a possible way I can
    > make my new kernel to spot my HD as ad2? To me this is the only solution
    > possible.
    >
    >
    >
    > Teilhard Knight
    > The Extraterrestrial
    >
    > Who ate my sandwich?
    >
    >
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