From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 19:18: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307DC15030 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA41720; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:21:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199910250221.WAA41720@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Boot hangs on "changing root device to da0s1a" In-Reply-To: from GWIS - Dan Roberts at "Oct 24, 1999 06:46:49 pm" To: ddr@gwis.com (GWIS - Dan Roberts) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG GWIS - Dan Roberts wrote, > I'm sorry, in my haste I forgot to mention that this system is running > 3.3-RELEASE.. it's a Pentium Pro 200 with a Tyan Tomcat motherboard. The > array is built on a 4MB 2-channel DPT SmartRAID IV with 5 x 4GB Seagate > Barracuda drives. [snip] > When I bring the system up now, it gets through the device probes, finding > everything including the array properly, but it gets to "changing root > device to da0s1a" and the system just stops booting. ^^^^^^ Is that the correct location for where the root partition lives? What devices does your RAID use? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message