Cillian Sharkey wrote:
> > but in the boot up, the message, "changing root device to wd0s1" keeps appearing
>and keeps
> > failing. in my /etc/fstab i have the following entry:
>
> > /dev/sd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
>
> > does anyone have any ideas.
>
> > the sd0 is probed and attached successfully during startup, but the change root
>fails
> > because it keeps on trying to change root to a wd0 IDE.
>
> would i be right in guessing that you used to have the FreeBSD
> system on IDE disk wd0 after which you transferred it over to
> SCSI disk sd0 ?
Hi Cillian! Thanks for the reply.
You are absolutely correct. This is exactely the case.
> is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ?
Yes. But not from the SCSI
> to boot your system off the SCSI disk you should be able
> to enter the following at the boot prompt :
> 0:sd(0,a)/kernel
> (or whatever the name of your kernel is) which should set
> the root device ok...
This works .. but how do I inflict a permanent change so that I don't have to use that
method
any longer?
With fdisk I set the partition as bootable on the SCSI disk and it seems to boot it
now but it
can't mount the root partition as I can't figure out what device name to use as my
root device
in the /etc/fstab.
I tried all the /dev/sd0* permutations I could find.
eT
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