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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
> 
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