Hi all, FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 was installed onto hard disk. The root filesystem was transferred to a usb memory stick via #pwd / # find -print . -x | cpio -pdm /mnt/usbstick
The fstab on the stick was modified such that "/" was to be mounted from /dev/da0s1a, the ufs fs on the usb stick. This had proven to work perfectly with 7.2. In 8.0-RC1, however, this approach fails. After booting the kernel, the system does not automatically mount the "/" partition. Instead, it asks for a partition to mount to "/", and when exactly the same location is entered ("ufs:/dev/da0s1a"), it mounts this partition and works perfectly. Explicitly setting the root partition (vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/da0s1a") in /boot/loader.conf does not help either: Again, the system knows which partition it should mount to "/", but it fails to do so. (vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw was set too). Any ideas? Marius _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"