Hi ALL,
fast version: i want to say to the kernel that HD is ad0 ( instead of ad1 ),at boottime. pls help. not so relevant: i installed dragonfly 1.6 ,in the beginning of this year. This was, because of my Acer Travelmate292 crashed before bios loading after installing DF 1.8 ( and also some other BSDs ) [fixed it by removing HD and formate it] ,but with DF 1.6 installing went fine. actual problem: because i am new to bsd it took a while to decide to upgrade my DF 1.6 to a newer version. so i installed lynx and followed the howto on the DF-wiki about upgrade dragonfly ( building from CVS). after reboot i was faced the "mountroot>" promt. ( where i have to say where my rootfilesystem is and what file system it is) i realised, that the 1.6 kernel "generic" used to detect my HD ( my laptop only has this HD ) as "ad0" ... but the new kernel ( i only took out floppy soupport on the kernelconfig ... maybe this is a problem ? - my laptop has no floppy ? ) detects the HD as ad1. THIS is a problem because the rootfilesystem used to be on "ad 0 s3a" ... for "ad 1 s3a" there is no entry in /dev ... so i could not manage to mount it. because i am a little bit naiv i thought changeing the FStab from ad0 to ad1 would do... ( i booted in kernel.old and changed FStab ) but now none of the kernels can locate the rootfilesystem... - without mounted root i am not able to write at the disc; so how to cope with my problem? ( i would prefere to know how to create devices in /dev or to say the kernel that my HD has to be ad0 ) ... i asked some people for help and also did a lot of search on the internet -so hopefully you are not feeling bagged by a beginner. furthermore i really like what are you doing, in case i understand it =). Thank you for your time. .achim p.s.: which "laptop configuration" would fit best the futher development of DragonFly BSD ?
