Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Ima Camper <ima_camper@yahoo.com> To: Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna <ds@hacked.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Mount Root Message-ID: <20050722192050.63144.qmail@web30002.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <42E145D4.8000404@hacked.com.br>
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--- Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna <ds@hacked.com.br> wrote: > Have u tried "lsdev" to see what disks the boot > found? That doesn't seem to work here: mountroot> lsdev panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. You might be thinking of the boot> prompt. But anyway, my disk is found: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <SEAGATE SX19171W 9D32> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8683MB (17783112 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 8683C) Thanks for the idea! Drew > > Ima Camper wrote: > > >--- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Ima Camper wrote: > >>[ ... ] > >> > >> > >>>da0 is my boot disk and contains /. However when > >>> > >>> > >>I > >> > >> > >>>configured the disk using sysinstall during > >>>installation, I set it up as "dangerously > >>> > >>> > >>dedicated". > >> > >> > >>>Now I wonder if my problem is that I should have > >>> > >>> > >>used > >> > >> > >>>"bsdlabel -B /dev/da0" instead of "da0s1a" when > >>>attempting to install boot blocks? > >>> > >>> > >>I suspect your device name ought to be /dev/da0a. > >>If you are at the boot prompt, what happens if you > >>enter a "?"...? > >> > >> > > > >Entering a "?" or anything else so far results in > >this: > > > >mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0a > >panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. > >cpuid = 0 > >boot() called on cpu#0 > >Uptime: 1h59m17s > > > > > > > >>Anyway, if you tell it the right place, and your > >>fstab is OK, you ought to boot > >>into the system as normal, from which point you > can > >>re-run bsdlabel with the > >>right device name. > >> > >>Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the > >>command from a shell. You > >>can also begin a custom install and exit after > wrws; > >>g just a new boot block > >>via sysinstall, too. > >> > >> > > > >Thanks for the ideas. I will try more when I get > >home. All I have available now is a serial console > >(that sometimes is at 115200 baud and sometimes at > >9600 baud) so I can't try anything other than > various > >iterations of root devices. > > > >Please send any other ideas to try if you have > them. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Drew > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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