Subject: Re: Kernel won't change root device
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@PHYSIOL.OX.AC.UK>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/15/1996 08:25:42
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Markus Baeurle wrote:

> ... So I changed the root and swap device to sd1a and sd1b ...
>
> But when the filesystem checks start, I get:
> 
> Automatic boot, starting file system checks
> sd0: no disk label
> Can't open /dev/sd0a: Device not configured
> 
> But I told it to use /dev/sd1a in the bootloader, so why sd0a!?!

But kernel doesn't do the fsck. Fsck is run by the /etc/rc startup
script.

You need to edit /etc/fstab.

(I used to thing that the SVR4 device syntax (eg /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 for
controller 0, target 0, device 0, slice 0) was ugly and cumbersome. I
start to see the attraction.)

Regards,

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Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                     Oxford University, UK
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