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 didn't miss

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

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 this file

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. But it seems

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 /etc/fstab when the

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 sure that I

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 line. Even if a

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. IIRC you can't correct

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.

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 mountroot.

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

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.

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 I have a possible

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 but it