--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ima Camper wrote: > [ ... ] > > da0 is my boot disk and contains /. However when > I > > configured the disk using sysinstall during > > installation, I set it up as "dangerously > dedicated". > > Now I wonder if my problem is that I should have > used > > "bsdlabel -B /dev/da0" instead of "da0s1a" when > > attempting to install boot blocks? > > I suspect your device name ought to be /dev/da0a. > If you are at the boot prompt, what happens if you > enter a "?"...? Entering a "?" or anything else so far results in this: mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0a panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. cpuid = 0 boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 1h59m17s > Anyway, if you tell it the right place, and your > fstab is OK, you ought to boot > into the system as normal, from which point you can > re-run bsdlabel with the > right device name. > > Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the > command from a shell. You > can also begin a custom install and exit after wrws; > g just a new boot block > via sysinstall, too. Thanks for the ideas. I will try more when I get home. All I have available now is a serial console (that sometimes is at 115200 baud and sometimes at 9600 baud) so I can't try anything other than various iterations of root devices. Please send any other ideas to try if you have them. Thanks, Drew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
