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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems mounting root Date: 31 Mar 1997 18:33:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5hp01g$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc3abe$5e2aed00$f629e5c2@compaq.webguide.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38462 "Andre Sjouerman" <face@clevercasting.com> wrote: > I am trying to compile a new kernel. As I boot from a SCSI drive (the > only one in the machine) I have to change > > config kernel root on wd0 > to > config kernel root on sd0 That was a very meaningless change. Unless you specify -r when booting (see boot(8)), the kernel automatically tries to change the root device to the device it has been booted from. Do you have BSD on the second disk (where the first disk is IDE)? This would explain it, you need special boot parameters then. If this is all on the first disk, please supply more input. In particular, which devices have been found at probe time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)