On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:46:25 pm Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:55:45 +1000, Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
>
> wrote:
> > I wanted to try a new dom0 kernel with manuel's latest interrupt
> > changes; they sounded promising for the hvm KASSERT issue.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the new kernel can't find its root/boot device.  Even
> > when I explicitly give it "wd0a" at the kernel's post-autoconf prompt
> > (the one you get for boot -a), it prompts for the init path then
> > panics because of missing /dev/console.
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Yes, I just booted recent domU kernel from a few mins ago and I can see it
> too
> with NetBSD 4.99.21 (it works fine with 4.99.20 ).
> It did not want to boot before I manually typed in root device and chose
> dump device and file system.

This happened to me a few weeks ago on one of my domus. I just removed the 
root= line from the config and all was good. I must have copied and pasted 
from somewhere for that one.

root= has never been needed.

Sarton