Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:13:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange message about root device at boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980318111253.437A-100000@Jupiter.internal.planet-three.com> In-Reply-To: <350F9DDC.FB91603@we.lc.ehu.es>
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I keep getting this too, but on a machine with IDE. The slice numbers don't make sense. Scot. On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > I have just cvsup'd 2.2.6-BETA (3-17-98). After making the world > and the new kernel, I rebooted the system verbosely, and I > saw the following messages: > > ahc0: target 0 using 16Bit transfers > ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x8 > ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device > (ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST32171W 0484" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2047MB (4194057 512 byte sectors) > sd0(ahc0:0:0): with 5172 cyls, 5 heads, and an average 162 sectors/track > ...... blah, blah, blah ....... > BIOS Geometries: > 0:0104fe3f 0..260=261 cylinders, 0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors > 0 accounted for > Device configuration finished. > Considering FFS root f/s. > changing root device to sd0s2a <<================ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > configure() finished. > bpf: lo0 attached > sd0s1: type 0xa5, start 0, end = 4194056, size 4194057 > sd0s1: C/H/S end 261/17/21 (99035) != end 4194056: invalid > > The disk has only one slice, and was partitioned by sysinstall > the first time I installed FreeBSD (2.2.1) on that machine. > The SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) has the "DOS traslation" enabled; this > explains the geometry of the disk (255 heads...) reported by the BIOS. > But the message that surprises me is "changing root device to > sd0s2a". There is no second partition !!!! I have confirmed this > using the fdisk command. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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