Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-08 Thread Mike Smith
> As suggested, if the correct root device can't be found, the boot > _should_ offer you a choice of running off others that appear to be > bootable. The "appear to be bootable" criterion is almost impossible (and unsafe to attempt) to determine. Also, I certainly can see instances

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-08 Thread Randell Jesup
Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > My FreeBSD-alpha PC164 lost it's IDE disk for 4.2 somehow- which I'd >> > just loaded the 4.2 kernel from- so it decided to run off of da0 >> > instead, which was -current. Truly a startling turn of >> > events. Shouldn't one stop and ask if the root

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:13:36PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > This might also be the source of the 'going nowhere without my init' install > failures that so plague alphas? No it is libdisk doing *err()* calls!! A library should *NOT* be exiting on its own. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-04 Thread Mike Smith
> > There are two schools of thought here. One says "you should try very > > hard to find a root device", the other says "you should boot only from > > the exactly correct root device and complain otherwise". I took the > > first approach because its advocates shouted more loudly than those o

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > This happened to me yesterday, and, haha, I didn't notice until I started to > > see RSA stuff not working: > > > > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > > Enabled > > da0: 4340MB (924 512 byte sectors: 255H

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-04 Thread Mike Smith
> > This happened to me yesterday, and, haha, I didn't notice until I started to > see RSA stuff not working: > > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da0: 4340MB (924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0a > no su

well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
This happened to me yesterday, and, haha, I didn't notice until I started to see RSA stuff not working: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4340MB (924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0a no such device 'ad' set