Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:31:00 +0930 From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from twed0 ? Message-ID: <39E5377C.DDE0DC34@pinnacle.net.au> References: <007901c03385$69784310$0800a8c0@duel.pinnacle.net.au>
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Solved my own problem. For the benefit of the searchable archives, the fix was recompiling the kernel with the following addition: options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:twed0s1e\" John Edwards wrote: > > Hi, > > I've successfully gotten FreeBSD 4.1 working on a 3ware Escalade 6000 card > for the root partition (big thanks to Mike Smith for writing the drivers), > but I can't get the system to boot automatically from it. It boots from Bios > ok, but appears to have some problem with /boot/loader, and stops at the > following message/prompt: > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > mountroot> > > If I enter "ufs:/dev/twed0s1e" at this point (where /stand/sysinstall ended > up putting the root partition when it was a secondary drive) it boots as > normal. > > I've tried adding rootdev=/dev/twed0s1e in /boot/loader.conf but it doesn't > seem to make any difference. I've also tried making sure that /boot is also > available on /dev/twed0s1a, where I think it's getting some boot information > from. > > Basically I'd like this system to bootup automatically instead of pausing at > this prompt. > > Any ideas? > > John Edwards > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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