Subject: Re: Can't mount root
To: Michael Larson - ADC <mlarson@adc.cirrus.com>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/02/1996 08:30:16
Did you run MAKEDEV?

Neil.


> I have a Sun Sparc 1+ that I attempting to put NetBSD on. I have
> been able to boot NetBSD using boot sd(0,0,0)netbsd -s and every
> thing looks ok as it comes up (all the devices are found and such)
> until the kernel attempts to mount the root partition. I setup
> the root partition in fstab as /dev/sd1a and the kernel boot message
> reports mapping scsi device 0 to sd1. But the kernel reports that
> it is unable to mount the root partition.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Larson
> 
> 
> 
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