Re: Being asked for root device on root

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:16:35PM +0000, David Liana wrote:
> How do I find the answer to your question.

The atabus0 attachment messages should be in dmesg output (or 
/var/run/dmesg.boot) a few lines before the wd0 messages you already
cited.

> Any way to dump devalias to a file on the USB floppy?

Not sure if that works, but you could try "ofctl -p > file" and then
remove everything before and after the "/aliases" node. I.e. on my
sparc this looks like:

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f002d22c: /aliases

beep                    2f706369 40382c37 30303030 302f6562   /pci@8,700000/eb
            0010:       75734035 2f626565 7040312c 3332....   us@5/beep@1,32
...
ttyb                    2f706369 40382c37 30303030 302f6562   /pci@8,700000/eb
            0010:       75734035 2f736572 69616c40 312c3430   us@5/serial@1,40
            0020:       30303030 3a62.... ........ ........   0000:b

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Martin