> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:00:27PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Right now I'm looking at stamping the disklabel which contains the > > designated root filesystem and passing the stamp into the kernel, which > > will then go look for it. There are still gremlins with this approach, > > but I can't think of anything better. 8( > > Well, it would probably help avoid the confusion and terror I went > through today (8-) > > I updated my boot blocks (last done a month ago) and the machine refused > to mount my root filesystem (on /dev/da0s2a) with "specified device does > not match mounted device". > > The machine would load OK with /kernel at the boot prompt. After fiddling with > num_ide_disks and some RTSLing, I discovered root_disc_unit (8-) > > set num_ide_disks=-1 > set root_disk_unit=0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > load /kernel > load -t userconfig_script /kernel.config > autoboot
Yeah, my fault. num_ide_disks is now deprecated, you can throw it away. If you resup, you won't need root_disk_unit either - that just avoids the code I broke. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
