Re: Boot error on OpenBSD 2.8

[stefan goeman <Stefan.Goeman@siemens.atea.be>]

Hello Radu,


Since you receive the error late in the boot process, I suspect that your enteries
in /etc/fstab are not correct !!

Maybe you can verify that.

Greetings,

Stefan 


On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:06:00AM +0200, RoBSD wrote:
> 
> I configured Lilo and OpenBSD boot and verify the hardware but I
> receive that error when it try to mount root partition (/) of OpenBSD.
> The error is late in boot process!
> 
> 
> Radu
> 
> sg> Hello,
> 
> sg> Didn't you forget to reconfigure your lilo? 
> sg> You use the lilo form you Slackware linux I think.
> sg> Well you have to reconfigure lilo.conf and state
> sg> that OpenBSD is on sdb or something like that.
> 
> 
> 
> sg> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:45:27PM +0200, robsd@softhome.net wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>  I have a computer for testing with 2 SCSI HDD(9 GB) on which I have
> >>  installed 4 OS: Win2000 and Slack on the first HDD, FreeBSD, a dos
> >>  patition(slice) and the new one - OpenBSD 2.8.
> >> 
> >> I tried 2 times to install OpenBSD and I finish without any error the
> >> installation process, but the error appears when it want to mount the
> >> root partion. The error is the following:
> >> 
> >> root on sd0a
> >> rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02
> >> panic: root filesystem has size 0
> >> Stopped at  - Debugger +0x4: leave
> >> ddb>
> >> 
> >> It's appears that it want to mount the root partion from sd0a instead
> >> of sd1a. I was able to mount the root partion with OpenBSD CDROM and
> >> /etc/fstab looks good.
> >> 
> >> I boot with lilo.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thank you for your help!
> >> Radu Coroi
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> sg> Greetings
> 
> sg> Stefan Goeman
> 
> 

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