Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 13:37:42 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot from ad4: Device Not Configured? Message-ID: <3EBAC016.7020108@acm.org> References: <20030508221553.B89449-100000@voo.doo.net>
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a) Yes, I do.
b) It doesn't get that far.
(The root hasn't yet been mounted, so the
contents of /dev would seem to be immaterial.
If you can't read the disk, it doesn't really
matter what's on it. ;-)
Tim
Marc Schneiders wrote:
> You probably haven't got the drive in /dev.
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, at 13:10 [=GMT-0700], Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>I'm trying to move my drives from
>>the slow built-in IDE controller to
>>a faster PCI card (Promise ULTRA TX2).
>>The boot loader succesfully loads the
>>kernel, and the kernel succesfully probes
>>the Promise controller and the hard
>>disk connected to it.
>>
>>But the root mount fails with error 6,
>>even after I type in "ufs:/dev/ad4s1a"
>>
>>I looked through the kernel config files
>>and LINT and could find nothing that
>>seemed relevant.
>>
>>Any advice gratefully appreciated.
>>
>>Tim Kientzle
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