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Mike SmithMar 16, 1998 5:33 am 
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Subject:Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change
From:Scot Elliott (sc@online.barbour-index.co.uk)
Date:Mar 17, 1998 5:29:58 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

I've had a few problems witht the new code too. The first couple were caused by my not reading the instructions properly; theese were SCSI devices and I did get it all working OK.

The big problem came when upgrading a system that was origionally a 2.1.5 system with IDE disks. The fstab file had a "wd0a" entry for the root device. I changed this to wd0s1a - which mounts OK on /dist on the 2.2.5-RELEASE system. But when I booted with my new 2.2.6-BETA kernel, it didn't even have a chance to get into single user mode. Just got mesages about "unable to mount root device" - followed by a panic and a reboot. I tried to change the "kernel root on .." entry to wd0s1a - and still the same thing.

So I had to give up and revert to 2.2.5-STABLE.. The machine's miles away so it's kind of hard to test these things. Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks.

Scot.

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:06:14 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rk@dataplex.net> To: Studded <Stud@dal.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mi@smith.net.au>, sta@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change

At 8:50 PM -0600 3/16/98, Studded wrote:

Strong vote for keeping it in. In my mind (and with all due respect to those involved) the problems we've seen were caused by too little notice, too little regression testing, and too few people reading the right lists at all. It seems to me that the bugs have been worked out of the thing, and we have an opportunity to shout the news from the

I believe that this is incorrect. I, am I am sure others who might not be so vocal, have a configuration that I don't know how to use with the new kernel.

As I understand it, Mike understands the problem but does not (yet) have a solution short of reformatting the HD.

That said, I did think of another way to handle the problem of a mismatch between a new kernel and an old mount. Put the test for most up to date mount version that someone suggested previously into /usr/sbin/config. If the user is about to do damage, config should bomb loud and ugly with the appropriate information. In fact, this method could be extensible to other cases in the future with a little thought. :)

This is not a version mismatch problem. I have the latest (-stable) of everything. This includes the "mount", MAKEDEV, and kernel changes. All imagined sd0 entries are in /dev, etc.

At a MINIMUM, I think that we need a script which will examine the HD's, the /dev tree and fstab and tell us what to change BEFORE we try to use it.

Richard Wackerbarth

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