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 -- Etienne de Bruin; e...@post.com "Visit http://Welcome.to/Shophar";. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
