On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 JString@aol.com wrote:

> Having moved my Conner 420Mb over to the Rapide, I'm having problem booting
> BSD. (the CFS420 is the master drive, with a Fireball set as slave) The
> kernel I'm running is the last one from the FTP site samed sa110....
> 
> The Unix partition uses the last 350Mb of the disc. I changed the devices in
> the !BTRiscBSD app config window to WD1a & WD1b (cheers for the info Chris!)
> When I attempt to boot, things seem to be going fine until filesystem type
> things start happening, at which point I get :

are you sure these are the correct devices? whenthe kernel boots in the
messages it prints whilst probing the hardware do you get something like:
Rapide at mainus ride0
rided0 at ride0
ride1 at ride0
etc... (I don't have a Rapide so I'v no idea what the boot messages would
look like)

In this case you should be using  rided0a (or what ever your kernel prints)
as the root device, wd1a and b is the second internel harddisc - though the
capitilisation may make a difference..

> panic: cannot mount root
> stopped at 0xf.... blah blah

it can't find the root device...

> As well as this, I can't seem to get unixfs to mount it either.

do you know how to specify the junk after unixfs mount? it in a faq
somewhere...

> Am I right in saying that you can't have a RiscBSD Partition that occupies
> the whole of a disc? I know I've read it somewhere, but I don't know if this
> is out of date.

you can - both of mine use an entire disc, however unixfs can't see them.

> Ideally, I'd like to be able to salvage some of the info on the drive, and
> redo the Conner as 100% RiscBSD.

if the worst come to the worst you could move it back to the internal
interface - since you know you can deffinatly boot from that.

P.S. when you do get it to boot on the rapide your /etc/fstab will probably
be out of date you'll have to change the /dev/wdNe etc over to whatever the
rapide is.

P.P.S. Just remembered there's been a change to the booting code of netbsd
in general that means root devices are specified at compile time - since
generic kernels try to boot from wd0... (this may be inaccurate, but
something like this has happened recently...)

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