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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:26:26 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Moving the boot disk to another controller
Message-ID:  <20020109092327.P86685-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200201090820.BAA16298@lariat.org>

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> I'm working on upgrading a server, and have encountered a frustrating pro=
blem.
> 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 i=
t
> 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.
>
> I changed /etc/fstab before the shift so that the system would know
> that /dev/ad4s1a was to be root, etc.; however, there are apparently
> other things to shift as well. What did I miss?

Maybe you have to change /boot/loader.conf, too, to set rootdev to ad4s1a?

Regards

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