Re: DF mountroot

[evs <erik14@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :I used cpdup to copy DragonFly to my HD. DF begins to boot but hangs
> :on mountroot ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> :
> 
>     Hmm.  I can't really tell what's wrong given the information.  I would
>     start by burning a DragonFly CD with the ISO from the download section
>     of the main site.
> 
>     If you can boot the DragonFly CD and access your HD from the CD then it
>     should be fundamentally possible to load DFly onto the HD and boot
>     directly from the HD.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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
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.