From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 15:43:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwis.com (darcy.gwis.com [209.57.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAD314BF7 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddr@gwis.com) Received: from localhost (ddr@localhost) by gwis.com (8.9.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA29940 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:43:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:43:06 -0400 (EDT) From: GWIS - Dan Roberts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot hangs on "changing root device to da0s1a" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just installed a new DPT SmartRAID IV in one of my servers which has been running well up to this point. Prior to reconfiguring the drives for the array, I did a full dump to tape. After the array was built, I recreated my filesystems and restored my files, making sure that the proper devices were listed in /dev and that the kernel contained the DPT driver. When I bring the system up now, it gets through the device probes, finding everything including the array properly, but it gets to "changing root device to da0s1a" and the system just stops booting. The numlock key is still responsive, and I can CAD to reboot, but it won't get any further regardless how long I wait. I can boot from floppy and mount the filesystems just fine, and prior to using these drives in an array, I had the DPT controller in the machine acting as a simple SCSI controller without any problems. Can anyone speculate as to what's wrong here and how I might fix it? -- Dan Roberts, Systems Engineer Voice 800.656.GWIS GWIS Internet Solutions Fax 330.656.5440 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message