Try changing the references to 'ufs' to 'ffs' is /etc/fstab...

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On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Brandon Reed (alaric) wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Brandon Reed writes:
> > >It works (ed) ... long story ... fine here there must be another problem.
> > >I built a new kernel and now it won't mount any ufs file systems.
> > 
> > Wow, that is an interesting problem.  How are you managing to boot up
> > without UFS filesystems mounted?
> Exactly :(
> I have DOS/Win95 dual-booted on the same machine.
> There's nothing wrong with the file systems, I booted from my 1.0a boot 
> floppy and was able to mount them but couldn't boot that kernel from the 
> hard disk to completion (it hung somewhere I don't remember where though.) 
> probably some conflict with a 1.1 binary (old kernel)
> 
> The wieredest thing is I have it set up like this:
> / wd0a
> /usr wd0e
> /var wd1a
> /dosd wd1e
> /dosc wd0f
> /usr/src/sys wd0g
> 
> it mounts root, it mounts the dos file systems but won't mount either 
> /var or /usr so I can't go to multi-user mode.
> I can boot to single user mode but when I try to mount /var or /usr (or 
> even /dev/fd0a)
> I get:
> ufs: something about operation unsupported by device
> !!!!
> 
> The system was running fine with a kernel I built about 4 days ago.
> I being totally stupid copied the new kernel over the old one without 
> backing up the old one. (The problem was I had changed some stuff in the 
> pcvt keyboard config file and it didn't like it so I was going to rebuild 
> with the defaults) 
> 
> I can't boot the 1.1a boot floppies because of a 
> hardware conflict and I don't really want to tear out my cards to accomodate 
> it, I believe my panasonic CD-rom is the conflict.
> 
> I wish the boot floppies dealt better with not finding the hardware it 
> expects at the addresses it expects :(
> 
>  Like: My CD-rom is at base-io 300 which I believe the generic kernel 
> expects to find a ne2k net card or something else at which naturally hangs 
> the machine solid.
> 
> 
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