Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 22:19 -0700: > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >Harald Schmalzbauer wrote this message on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:58 +0200: > > > >>Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also claimed to > >>have problems with "mountroot>" > > > >

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Harald Schmalzbauer wrote this message on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:58 +0200: Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also claimed to have problems with "mountroot>" I have a possible patch that might address people's problems with mountroot. http://people.

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also claimed to have problems with "mountroot>" I installed FreeBSD (I think it was 5.0-RELEASE) on a hard disk attached to ad0. It worked, I tested it. I reconnected the hard disk to a separate IDE controller as a

RE: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Harald Schmalzbauer wrote this message on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at > 02:58 +0200: > > Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also > claimed to > > have problems with "mountroot>" > > I have a possible patch that might address people's problems with > mountro

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote this message on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:58 +0200: > Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also claimed to > have problems with "mountroot>" I have a possible patch that might address people's problems with mountroot. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/vfs

RE: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:38:18AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > *snip* > > > > > > The machine rebooted. No matter if I did "?" or any "ufs:xxYz". It's > > > > behaviour was like "empty line". > > > > > > That's the normal behavour if the line can't be parsed. > > >

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:38:18AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > *snip* > > > > The machine rebooted. No matter if I did "?" or any "ufs:xxYz". It's > > > behaviour was like "empty line". > > > > That's the normal behavour if the line can't be parsed. > > IIRC you can't correct typos on that

RE: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
*snip* > > The machine rebooted. No matter if I did "?" or any "ufs:xxYz". It's > > behaviour was like "empty line". > > That's the normal behavour if the line can't be parsed. > IIRC you can't correct typos on that line. > Even if a line corrected with backspace looks good - it is not. I'm very

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:47:59AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:22:31PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > >The problem is solved. It was stupid, but I thought why should > > I have to > > > >set > > > >/ in /e

RE: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:22:31PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > >The problem is solved. It was stupid, but I thought why should > I have to > > >set > > >/ in /etc/fstab when the filesystem isn't mounted yet, so the > file can't be > > >read. >

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:22:31PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > >The problem is solved. It was stupid, but I thought why should I have to > >set > >/ in /etc/fstab when the filesystem isn't mounted yet, so the file can't be > >read. > >But it seems the kernel reads thi

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: The problem is solved. It was stupid, but I thought why should I have to set / in /etc/fstab when the filesystem isn't mounted yet, so the file can't be read. But it seems the kernel reads this file "loader-like" *before* the filesystem is mounted. I believe that the load

RE: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 02:22:41AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > my kernel (5.1-REL) can't mount root (mountroot>) on my CF-card although > > it's booting fine and I can mount the card on my USB card reader. > > I had a look at GENERIC and saw that I did

Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 02:22:41AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hello, > > my kernel (5.1-REL) can't mount root (mountroot>) on my CF-card although > it's booting fine and I can mount the card on my USB card reader. > I had a look at GENERIC and saw that I didn't miss the option FFS_ROOT bu

FFS_ROOT is gone?

2003-07-11 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, my kernel (5.1-REL) can't mount root (mountroot>) on my CF-card although it's booting fine and I can mount the card on my USB card reader. I had a look at GENERIC and saw that I didn't miss the option FFS_ROOT but it doesn't exist any longer. Any ideas why I can't mount root? The card is fo