From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 3:16:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CF437B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 03:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CBD43EB2 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 03:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBFBG5Qn016804 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:16:05 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBFBG01i016803 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:16:00 GMT Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:16:00 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID + adaptec 2400A Message-ID: <20021215111600.GC15884@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DFC20E5.5060706@houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DFC20E5.5060706@houston.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 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 Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:27:49AM -0600, mattb wrote: > The disc loads up and I can get to the kernel configuration menu...7 > conflicts. I take care of the conflicts and the machine continues to > load the kernel.. loads up asr0 ok. > The machine then attempts to mount root from /dev/fd0c for some reason. > When it can't mount /dev/fd0c it drops into an mountroot> prompt and I > haven't been ableto get past this. Hmmm... That's not necessarily a problem with the raid card as such. The 'root' that the system is trying to mount at that point is the filesystem on the CDRom drive. Do you see any mention of your CD drive in the boot messages? Nb. the fact that the BIOS can see the CD well enough for it to boot the kernel from it in no way precludes FreeBSD from being unable to see the device well enough to mount a filesystem from it... A quick'n'dirty way to get around the problem is to grab the bootable floppy images and build install floppies (Handbook, section 2.2.7 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html) and use those to do a network install. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message