Re: "cannot mount root, error = 79"

[Kentaro KAWAMOTO <kentaro.kawamoto%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks, David, haad.

Finally, I successfully boot the i386 machine with 5.99.18 kernel (and modules).
I didn't understand thathwas
kernel binary (/netbsd) itself doesn't load modules, but
boot loader does.

What I did this time was...

$ cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot
$ installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1

and to change grub configuration from
---
title NetBSD
root (hd0,1,a)
kernel /netbsd
---
to
---
title NetBSD
root (hd0,1,a)/netbsd
chainloader +1
boot
---


Thanks again.
Is there anything I can do to update the documentation?
I don't think I'm the only one who confuses this updating process.


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, haad <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Kentaro KAWAMOTO
> <kentaro.kawamoto%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:54:50AM +0900, Kentaro KAWAMOTO wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I copied kernel and modules (/stand/i386/5.99.18/*).
>>>> But it doesn't work anyway.
>>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIR, you need to also copy the boot program, /usr/mdec/boot, to the new
>>> system.[1]
>>
>> I'm sorry, I didn't mention that I am using GRUB, not boot(8) as bootloader.
>> (Because I have Linux system in the same i386 machine, too.)
>> When using GRUB, /usr/mdec/boot has nothing to do with boot process, doesn't 
>> it?
>
> Aha this is the cause of your problems, because NetBSD bootloader is
> loading modules for us. Can you install NetBSD bootloader to your
> NetBSD partition and just load it from grub.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Adam
>



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