Re: DF mountroot

[Max Laier <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

evs wrote:
> Looking at it now, my explanation was too brief. I did everything you
> suggested. I used a HD with FreeBSD 4.8 installed. 
> ISO from  ftp://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots
> burned a CD of the ISO
> I booted from the DF CD
> used newfs to format the HD slice /dev/ad0s1a
> mounted the HD on /tmp/hd
> went to init 1
> cpdup / to /tmp/hd

I think you are missing /dev, /var and maybe even a properly set-up 
/tmp. As they are mounted from seperate (mfs) partitions with the cd 
boot $cpdup / /tmp/hd won't copy them as well. See /README on the cd.

> exited
> removed loader.conf from HD
> edited /tmp/hd/etc/fstab based upon the example
> removed the DF CD, rebooted, and DragonFly began to boot (
> beautifully, I might add )
>
> ... until it reaches mountroot ufs:/dev/ad0s1a, which it begins, and
> then hangs indefinitely. I would suspect it's a problem with
> /etc/fstab, but mine's so simple, I don't see what's wrong. Maybe it's
> right under my nose.
>
> btw - when i tried to mount the original FreeBSD UFS slice, DF
> complained about a wrong superblock until I used newfs to reformat the
> slice. This was a surprise but, easy to get around.


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