From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 15:47:18 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 EB9F614BF7 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddr@gwis.com) Received: from localhost (ddr@localhost) by gwis.com (8.9.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00204 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:46:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:46:49 -0400 (EDT) From: GWIS - Dan Roberts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot hangs on "changing root device to da0s1a" In-Reply-To: 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'm sorry, in my haste I forgot to mention that this system is running 3.3-RELEASE.. it's a Pentium Pro 200 with a Tyan Tomcat motherboard. The array is built on a 4MB 2-channel DPT SmartRAID IV with 5 x 4GB Seagate Barracuda drives. I hope someone can help.. I need to get this system back up very soon and I'm just beating my head against the wall after exhausting all of my own resources. -- Dan Roberts, Systems Engineer Voice 800.656.GWIS GWIS Internet Solutions Fax 330.656.5440 Please contact support@gwis.com for all technical support issues On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, GWIS - Dan Roberts wrote: > 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