From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 23:12: 7 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 A956A37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from world.tonkinresolutions.com (233-123.adsl6.netlojix.net [207.71.233.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECED243E3B for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by world.tonkinresolutions.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g9462Od75354 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:02:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Tonkin X-Sender: nick@world.tonkinresolutions.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble mounting the root filesystem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello, Seems my new FreeBSD system can't mount from my RAID controller. Just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a shiny new box with a Promise Fasttrack 100 onboard ATA RAID controller. The OS seems to recognize the array no problem: ar0: 38166MB ,ATA RAID1 array. [4865/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad4: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata2-master ~ UDMA 100 0 READY ad6: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata3-master ~ UDMA 100 But when I boot the system I just get the old: Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> So I do what it says: mountroot>ufs:/dev/ar0s1a <<--- I can use ar0, ar0s1, ar0s1a: same effect Oct 3 23:00:17 init: login_getclass: unknown class 'daemon' /etc/rc: Can't open /etc/rc: No such file or directory Oct 3 23:00:17 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: So it looks like only the / fs mounted. So I mount the rest by hand: # mount /dev/ar0s1e /var # mount /dev/ar0s1f /etc # mount /dev/ar0s1g /usr But then when I check to see what happened: # mount /dev/ar0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only) /dev/ar0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ar0s1f on /etc (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ar0s1g on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) So it only mounts / read-only ... what's up with that? Any advice on how to get the system to automatically mount the filesystems we defined greatly appreciated. Thanks, - nick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Tonkin {|8^)> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message