From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 07:36:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2589F16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 07:36:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server2.sonservers.com (server2.sonservers.com [69.50.210.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D949E43D49 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 07:36:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from info@sonservers.com) Received: from 209-181-158-172.omah.qwest.net ([209.181.158.172] helo=IBM-R40) by server2.sonservers.com with smtp (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1Czrp4-000CBI-Q3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:36:11 -0600 From: Scott To: X-Mailer: Barca 1.1 (850) - Licensed Version Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:36:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20052121364.733527@IBM-R40> In-Reply-To: <2005211204233.443160@IBM-R40> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server2.sonservers.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sonservers.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: info@sonservers.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 07:36:12 -0000 > I will really appreciate it of someone can > help > me out. > > I am installing 5.3 on a dual p3 server. I > have > two 160 gig Seagate IDE drives on the first > IDE > connector, and a CD rom on the 2nd IDE > connector. > I have reinstalled several times with > different > drive configurations and keep getting stuck > at > the same place. > > At boot, the normal countdown loader comes > up and > it begins to boot. The boot message gets to > this > drive section below and then stops at a > "mountroot>" prompt. > > Begin copy ....... > > ad0: 152627MB > [310101/16/63] > at ata0-master UDMA66 > ad1: 152627MB > [310101/16/63] > at ata0-master UDMA66 > acd0: at ata1-master PIO4 > > Manual root filesystem specification: > : Mount using > filesystem > > eg. usf:da0s1a > ? List valid desk boot devices > Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > ............ End copy > > If I type: ufs:ad0s1a > at that "mountroot>" > prompt, it will boot normally and as far as > I can > tell, all is working like I would expect. I > suspected this may have something to do > with my > fstab but it looks normal to me: > > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad1s1d /backup ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > 0 0 > > Please let me know if I can provide more > information that will help you help me know > what to do to get it to automatically go on > to boot ad0s1a. One more thing I just found out, if it helps. If I just let it boot, I get to the mountroot> prompt as above and can boot the system after entering the location of the root partition. If I chose option 2 and boot with ACPI off, the drives are not found and I get: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out errors on both the master and slave drives. At that point, I get the mountroot> prompt again, but of course can not mount the root partition. So now I'm wondering why if I boot with ACPI on, the drives are found, but root doesn't boot. With ACPI off, the drives are not even found. I hope that helps someone tell me where to look. 5.2.1 was booting off this same drive normally before I replaced it with 5.3. Thanks, Scott