On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on a freshly cvsupped source tree, i notice that picobsd images
> with a preloaded MD_ROOT cannot boot anymore: the kernel goes up
> to this stage:
> 
>       Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
>       setrootbyname failed
>       ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
>       Root mount failed: 6
> 
>       Manual root filesystem specification:
>         <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                              eg. ufs:da0s1a
>         ?                  List valid disk boot devices
>         <empty line>       Abort manual input
> 
>       mountroot>
> 
> at which point you can proceed by specifying "ufs:md0" as the root
> path, and everything works fine.
> It certainly used to work (though i do not remember if the root path
> came out as md0c or just md0) up to a couple of months ago, roughly.
> 
> Does this ring any bell on what might have changed more or less recently
> that affects this ? Who builds up the '/dev/md0c' name for the root
> filesystem ?

phk@ removed old BSD partition compatibility (md0a,b,c) a while back and
then added it in for the devfs case.

-Nate


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