Re: 6.1.4 : fresh install : boot device not found

[Martin Husemann]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:52:41AM +, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
 makes me wonder why the system just stopped at root device.

This likely means the kernel has not found the device you are booting
from. You can get a list of available disk and network devices by typing

?

at the root device: prompt. Show the list here and tell us what device
you booted from (most likely: wd0, the first sata disk, so boot device should
be wd0a).

Sometimes it may help to power off the machine (that is no problem at this
point), wait a minute and retry cold. If this would make it work, it is
still a bug (and you should file a PR).

Martin

6.1.4 : fresh install : boot device not found

[Mayuresh Kathe]

hello,

i messed up my 6.1.4 on amd64 system, so did a fresh install.
everything went well, but while first boot, it showed;
boot device: not found
root device 

it just stayed put till the point i installed another system
and then re-installed netbsd 6.1.4, this time, everything
went well, including the first boot.

i am sure i have performed every step, just can't go wrong with
netbsd. :)
makes me wonder why the system just stopped at root device.

is there anything i could have done to find out what went wrong?

thanks,

~mayuresh