From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 0:42:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEB437B427 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g098QQh86733; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:26:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:26:26 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Brett Glass Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving the boot disk to another controller In-Reply-To: <200201090820.BAA16298@lariat.org> Message-ID: <20020109092327.P86685-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message