From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 22:41:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwis.com (darcy.gwis.com [209.57.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133CD14A0E for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddr@gwis.com) Received: from localhost (ddr@localhost) by gwis.com (8.9.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA21770; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:41:12 -0400 (EDT) From: GWIS - Dan Roberts Reply-To: support@gwis.com To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot hangs on "changing root device to da0s1a" In-Reply-To: <199910250221.WAA41720@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, da0s1a is my root filesystem. da0s1a / da0s1b swap da0s1d /var da0s1e /var/spool da0s1f /var/log da0s1g /var/tmp da0s1h /tmp da0s2e /var/mail da0s2f /usr da0s2g /home -- Dan Roberts, Systems Engineer Voice 800.656.GWIS GWIS Internet Solutions Fax 330.656.5440 Please contact support@gwis.com for all technical support issues On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > GWIS - Dan Roberts wrote, > > I'm sorry, in my haste I forgot to mention that this system is running > > 3.3-RELEASE.. it's a Pentium Pro 200 with a Tyan Tomcat motherboard. The > > array is built on a 4MB 2-channel DPT SmartRAID IV with 5 x 4GB Seagate > > Barracuda drives. > > [snip] > > > When I bring the system up now, it gets through the device probes, finding > > everything including the array properly, but it gets to "changing root > > device to da0s1a" and the system just stops booting. > ^^^^^^ > Is that the correct location for where the root partition lives? What > devices does your RAID use? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message