Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:53:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving the boot disk to another controller Message-ID: <20020109185300.D66190@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200201090820.BAA16298@lariat.org> References: <200201090820.BAA16298@lariat.org>
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On Wednesday, 9 January 2002 at 1:20:32 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > I'm working on upgrading a server, and have encountered a frustrating problem. > This server has dual IDE controllers on the motherboard, but they're slow -- > 33 MHz max. So, I bought an Promise PCI Ultra100 controller and plugged it > into a PCI slot. I then took the boot drive and plugged it into the new > controller. Once I did this and reconfigured the BIOS, the system would > load the kernel and get partway through the boot sequence but then > freeze up. From the messages on the screen, it appears that, even though it > had properly loaded the kernel from the hard drive, it couldn't find its > root filesystem later on in the boot sequence and so could not boot > up. Hmm, it shouldn't freeze. It won't be able to remount / because the name in /etc/fstab is wrong. > I changed /etc/fstab before the shift so that the system would know > that /dev/ad4s1a was to be root, etc.; Ah. That's what comes of reading sequentially. > however, there are apparently other things to shift as well. What > did I miss? The messages? If you fix /etc/fstab, it should work. BTW, don't expect a big speed difference between UDMA33 and UDMA100. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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