Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >In message <199905111939.vaa02...@peedub.muc.de>, Gary Jennejohn writes: >>I switched to the new config(8) today, where the ``config kernel root on..'' >>line is no longer tolerated in the config file. >> >>I now have to ``boot -r'' to avoid a `can't mount root' panic. This wasn't >>necessary before. >> >>I know I can probably put something into /boot/<mumble> to automate this. >>Just thought I'd report my (negative) experience. > >What's your config ? It sounds like the boot code isn't telling the >kernel the right thing... > >I belive it picks the bootmajor from the type field in the >disklabel. (right Mike ?) > >So do you have a IDE/ATA disk labeled as SCSI by any chance ? >
no, it's a "dangerously dedicated" SCSI disk. the loader shows the floppy as DISK A and the SCSI disk as DISK B. I have to admit that I still have old boot blocks on the disk, but as I said, it worked OK before. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - ga...@muc.de Work - ga...@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
