> 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 ? is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ? 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... Regards, - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
