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From: PhilmoreW@worldnet.att.net
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Subject: changing to root device wd0s1a \n error 22: panic: cannot mount root (2)
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>Number:         13452
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       changing to root device wd0s1a \n error 22: panic: cannot mount root (2)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 29 08:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Mar 12 18:13:35 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Mar 12 18:13:45 PST 2001
>Originator:     Phil Welch
>Release:        stable 8/27/99
>Organization:
BidSystems
>Environment:
>Description:
changing to root device wd0s1a
error 22: panic: cannot mount root (2)

(reboots and repeats sequence until stopped)
>How-To-Repeat:
PC has 2 hard disks.  Installation is to 2nd disk with 1.5 gig using default mount points.  Used kern and mfs floppies to create startup; dos files to install; included all bin, doc, manpages, proflibs, dict and info files.
>Fix:


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>Audit-Trail:

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: PhilmoreW@worldnet.att.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/13452: changing to root device wd0s1a \n error 22: panic: cannot mount root (2) 
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:23:51 +0200

 On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 07:53:23 MST, PhilmoreW@worldnet.att.net wrote:
 
 > PC has 2 hard disks.  Installation is to 2nd disk with 1.5 gig using
 > default mount points.  Used kern and mfs floppies to create startup;
 > dos files to install; included all bin, doc, manpages, proflibs, dict
 > and info files.
 
 You need to fiddle with the rootdev loader variable. At the boot:
 prompt, you'll need to do either
 
 	set rootdev="wd1s1a"
 
 or
 
 	set rootdev=\"wd1s1a\"
 
 Sorry, I can't remember which one works right now. Also, I'm assuming
 that wd1s1a is your root partition. If I'm wrong, use the right one. :-)
 
 Once you're into your system, you can make this a permanent change by
 sticking the following line in /boot/loader.conf:
 
 rootdev="wd1s1a"
 
 Note that, even if the command you had to use at the boot: prompt
 involved escaped quotes (\"), you should _not_ use them in
 /boot/loader.conf .
 
 Please let me know whether this helped you or not. Specifically, I'd
 like to know which of the syntaxes for the boot: prompt ``set'' command
 worked. :-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 15:31:32 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Did Sheldon's advice work? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13452 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: des 
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 12 18:13:35 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13452 
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