Mark Newton writes: | I tried to upgrade my diskless router this afternoon to -current as | cvsupped last night. | | I can't make it boot, though. | | It now panics with "Can't mount root" when I boot it. And yes, I have | updated the kernel config for new-bus. | | I noticed the BOOTP stuff in LINT, but that's been there for a while and | I've never needed to use it before. I turned it on anyway just to see | what happens, but tcpdump doesn't show it sending any bootp requests.
I have a fix for you based on the MFS mount root problem! Note it is a best guess and works for me. It seems rootdev needs to be defined or it ignores trying to mount it. I ran into this a couple of days ago. Doug A. Index: bootp_subr.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/sys/nfs/bootp_subr.c,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -c -r1.19 bootp_subr.c *** bootp_subr.c 1999/01/27 23:45:39 1.19 --- bootp_subr.c 1999/05/29 16:52:14 *************** *** 1043,1048 **** --- 1043,1049 ---- panic("nfs_boot: lookup swap, error=%d", error); } nfs_diskless_valid = 3; + rootdev = makedev(255,0); } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message