Re: Being asked for root device on root

[David Liana <dliana%frontiernet.net@localhost>]

Sorry for the delay...  see below...

On 02/07/2012 10:41 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:16:35PM +0000, David Liana wrote:
> > How do I find the answer to your question.
> The atabus0 attachment messages should be in dmesg output (or
> /var/run/dmesg.boot) a few lines before the wd0 messages you already
> cited.

$ dmesg | grep atabus
atabus0 at cmdide0 channel 0
atabus1 at wdc0 channel 0
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <IC35L060AVV207-0>
wd1 at atabus0 drive 1: <IC35L040AVVN07-0>
atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets

> > Any way to dump devalias to a file on the USB floppy?
> Not sure if that works, but you could try "ofctl -p>  file" and then
> remove everything before and after the "/aliases" node. I.e. on my
> sparc this looks like:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> f002d22c: /aliases
>
> beep                    2f706369 40382c37 30303030 302f6562   /pci@8,700000/eb
>              0010:       75734035 2f626565 7040312c 3332....   us@5/beep@1,32
> ...
> ttyb                    2f706369 40382c37 30303030 302f6562   /pci@8,700000/eb
>              0010:       75734035 2f736572 69616c40 312c3430   us@5/serial@1,40
>              0020:       30303030 3a62.... ........ ........   0000:b
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Martin

Here is the long output:
ff832ce8: /aliases
adb-keyboard            2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f76   
/pci/@d/mac-io/v
            0010:       69612d63 7564612f 6164622f 6b657962   
ia-cuda/adb/keyb
            0020:       6f617264 00...... ........ ........   oard.
adb-mouse               2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f76   
/pci/@d/mac-io/v
            0010:       69612d63 7564612f 6164622f 6d6f7573   
ia-cuda/adb/mous
            0020:       6500.... ........ ........ ........   e.
bridge                  2f706369 2f406400 ........ ........   /pci/@d.
cd                      2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f61   
/pci/@d/mac-io/a
            0010:       74612d33 40323030 30302f64 69736b40   
ta-3@20000/disk@
            0020:       3000.... ........ ........ ........   0.
enet                    2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f65   
/pci/@d/mac-io/e
            0010:       74686572 6e657400 ........ ........   thernet.
fw                      2f706369 2f40642f 66697265 77697265   
/pci/@d/firewire
            0010:       00...... ........ ........ ........   .
hd                      2f706369 2f40642f 7063692d 61746140   
/pci/@d/pci-ata@
            0010:       312f6174 612d3440 302f6469 736b4030   
1/ata-4@0/disk@0
            0020:       00...... ........ ........ ........   .
ide0                    2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f61   
/pci/@d/mac-io/a
            0010:       74612d33 40323030 303000.. ........   ta-3@20000.
ide1                    2f706369 2f40642f 7063692d 61746140   
/pci/@d/pci-ata@
            0010:       312f6174 612d3440 3000.... ........   1/ata-4@0.
keyboard                2f707375 65646f2d 6869642f 6b657962   
/psuedo-hid/keyb
            0010:       6f617264 00...... ........ ........   oard.
last-boot               2f706369 40383030 30303030 302f7063   
/pci@80000000/pc
            0010:       692d6272 69646765 40642f6d 61632d69   
i-bridge@d/mac-i
            0020:       6f40352f 65746865 726e6574 00......   o@5/ethernet.
mac-io                  2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f00..   
/pci/@d/mac-io.
mouse                   2f707375 65646f2d 6869642f 6d6f7573   
/psuedo-hid/mous
            0010:       6500.... ........ ........ ........   e.
name                    616c6961 73657300 ........ ........   "aliases"
no-boot                 2f706369 40383030 30303030 302f7063   
/pci@80000000/pc
            0010:       692d6272 69646765 40642f6d 61632d69   
i-bridge@d/mac-i
            0020:       6f40352f 66646300 2f706369 40383030   
o@5/fdc./pci@800
            0030:       30303030 302f7063 692d6272 69646765   
00000/pci-bridge
            0040:       40642f6d 61632d69 6f40352f 73637369   
@d/mac-io@5/scsi
            0050:       002f7063 69403830 30303030 30302f70   
./pci@80000000/p
            0060:       63692d62 72696467 6540642f 6d61632d   
ci-bridge@d/mac-
            0070:       696f4035 2f617461 2d334032 31303030   
io@5/ata-3@21000
            0080:       00...... ........ ........ ........   .
nvram                   2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f6e   
/pci/@d/mac-io/n
            0010:       7672616d 00...... ........ ........   vram.
pci                     2f706369 00...... ........ ........   /pci.
rtc                     2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f76   
/pci/@d/mac-io/v
            0010:       69612d63 7564612f 72746300 ........   ia-cuda/rtc.
scca                    2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f65   
/pci/@d/mac-io/e
            0010:       7363632f 63682d61 00...... ........   scc/ch-a.
sccb                    2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f65   
/pci/@d/mac-io/e
            0010:       7363632f 63682d62 00...... ........   scc/ch-b.
screen                  2f706369 40383030 30303030 302f4154   
/pci@80000000/AT
            0010:       592c5261 67653132 38794031 3000....   
Y,Rage128y@10.
sound                   2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f64   
/pci/@d/mac-io/d
            0010:       61766275 732f736f 756e6400 ........   avbus/sound.
ultra0                  2f706369 2f40642f 7063692d 61746140   
/pci/@d/pci-ata@
            0010:       312f6174 612d3440 302f6469 736b4030   
1/ata-4@0/disk@0
            0020:       00...... ........ ........ ........   .
ultra1                  2f706369 2f40642f 7063692d 61746140   
/pci/@d/pci-ata@
            0010:       312f6174 612d3440 302f6469 736b4031   
1/ata-4@0/disk@1
            0020:       00...... ........ ........ ........   .
usb                     2f706369 2f40642f 75736200 ........   /pci/@d/usb.
usb-keyboard
usb-mouse
via-cuda                2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f76   
/pci/@d/mac-io/v
            0010:       69612d63 75646100 ........ ........   ia-cuda.
zip                     2f706369 2f40642f 6d61632d 696f2f61   
/pci/@d/mac-io/a
            0010:       74612d33 40323030 30302f64 69736b40   
ta-3@20000/disk@
            0020:       3100.... ........ ........ ........   1.