Bug 81091

Summary: / mounting error typo
Product: Base System Reporter: J. Pollard <snowmanuid0>
Component: confAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.4-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description J. Pollard 2005-05-16 07:20:02 UTC 
I found a computer that I was not using so I decided to install 5.4 on it.  
It has 2 ide HD, however during the install ad0 was unwritable.  I installed on ad1, took out the bad HD and booted up.  An error occurred saying that root could not be mounted and gave me a chance to manually mount it.  I was surprised at first but it made sense after i thought about.  However I notice that the example given stated typing ufs:da0s1a.  
I believe the example was meant to say ufs:ad0s1a.

Fix: 

Fix typo.
How-To-Repeat: Adjust /etc/fstab to mount / from the wrong disk.
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway 2005-05-16 10:10:26 UTC 
> I believe the example was meant to say ufs:ad0s1a.

No, da is a SCSI 'direct access' device (i.e. disk).  See the da(4) manpage.

Kris
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-05-17 01:07:15 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Not actually a typo.