From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 02:04:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E57D16A400 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:04:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from romanista@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4B213C467 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:04:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from romanista@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so847680ana for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:04:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=LgeNJzpDgWEYGuMUicgVtuH5NCWlMxQrhiCG57iRG2lsowAXtfsvpnPF06EU9Rn4RIA4TbtGkepNcKDV5AK/HtaQN4Sf7cLZ2y+Q4gisnJG/LiG33BbEld2MuDZGRVjtGzfzVvBqrzvuP5mRP17dlO2w/NJIAwItXEDRWNt7Qao= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=raF6WrVVwOxRHcxzsxP+eAlI6NeYd2yfZpm+gqk22IJOqyUo0UKA3JKlPSGcyOR91r37VAsv+0sJHifr6RCO4qMO1DHiHjBdok+/iaQQgCjCoe8md5il8Qu6Tu1ZFWtKpEUYF8oRNjOw4wTBf/lYEpTSa+P2XlTrAI4NaRefa0w= Received: by 10.114.107.19 with SMTP id f19mr469884wac.1172885836000; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.14.12 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:37:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:37:15 -0500 From: "Walter Cangemi" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Mountroot prompt on a new install of 6.2 - Tecra M3 Centrino X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:04:08 -0000 Good Evening, I installed 6.0 a while back on this same machine (Toshiba Tecra M3 - Centrino based), no particular issues to report. I had to take out BSD and work with another combination of OSes for about a year, and now it's time for me to reinstall BSD as the main OS. I therefore attempted to do a fresh install of 6.2, got the infamous message about corrected drive geometry right before proceeding with disk partitioning, and moved forward with installation since I've seen that message in previous installations and never had anomalies. This time, however, the installation is acting strangely. It randomly goes to the "mountroot>" prompt when booted in normal mode, even though 'fstab' is correctly set to boot from '/dev/ad0s3a'. When I try to type the correct root partition at the 'mountroot' prompt, it will refuse to boot from it and restart the laptop if I press another key. This same behaviour happens randomly when I boot in Single User Mode. Safe Mode appears to be the only mode that correctly boots to a prompt. I have not been able to reproduce the issue in a consistent manner to share with you what might be triggering this. I also downloaded a whole new ISO and burned it on another CD from another burner (you see here that I am becoming paranoid) but the results, unfortunately, are the same. Just in case it might help, here are a few more details on the Disk configuration + hardware specifications: - 'ad0s1a' is NTFS and is hosting WinXP - 'ad0s2a' is FAT32 for plain storage - 'ad0s3a' is FreeBSD The Laptop is Centrino-based with a Pentium-M (Sonoma Core, 533FSB). The HDD I am using is an early model Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00, 60GB 7200rpm. A copy of the Laptop specs can be viewed here: http://cs.fiu.edu/~wcang001/bs/TecraM3_specs.pdf An output of 'dmesg' I collected one of the times it booted correctly can be viewed here: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~wcang001/fBSD/TecraM3_dmesg If you need any further details, by all means let me know. Thank you in advance! -Walter