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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:18:21 GMT
From: Alex <freebsd.alex@spamfoodie.com>
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Subject: non-userfriendly panic when trying to mount non-existing or wrong rootdev
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>Number:         129152
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [panic] non-userfriendly panic when trying to mount(8) non-existing or wrong rootdev
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-fs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 24 22:20:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 25 04:36:38 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Alex
>Release:        8-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD moshnroll 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #6: Mon Nov 24 21:37:28 CET 2008     root@moshnroll:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL  i386
>Description:
when 8-CURRENT tries to mount a rootdev that doesn't exist or isn't valid
(no init) it panics. this isn't very userfriendly! you might consider using
the code that is being executed when you boot with the -a switch in this case.

cheers.
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>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-fs 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Nov 25 04:35:55 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Sounds like this could be in the filesystem code. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129152 
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