Re: USB key with -CURRENT, but /root not found on one laptop

El día Tuesday, April 21, 2009 a las 08:37:56AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky escribió:

> On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've a boot-able USB key with -CURRENT from which I have booted and
> > installed fine my small EeePC. I now wanted to update with the same
> > procedure the laptop of my wife (which still runs RELENG_7) to make her
> > happy access to the wonderful world of -CURRENT :-)
> >
	...
> >
> > mountroot>
> >
> > typing at prompt mountroot>: ufs:da0s1a
> >
> > brings up menu again and again
> >
> > Why the kernel does not see da0s1a to mount the root filesystem?
> 
> There are some known issues in this area. I think Andrew Thompson is currently 
> working on these issues.

Would it be an option to just boot from a 71R CD into the rescue system,
mount the USB key as /mnt, chroot to it and install as

# chroot /mnt /bin/sh
# fdisk -I ad4
# fdisk -B ad4
# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto
# bsdlabel -B ad4s1
# newfs /dev/ad4s1a
# mkdir /disk
# mount /dev/ad4s1a /disk
# make installworld DESTDIR=/disk
# make installkernel DESTDIR=/disk KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t
# make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=/disk
# make distribution DESTDIR=/disk
# echo /dev/ad4s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /disk/etc/fstab
...

?

Thanks

	matthias
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