From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 19:20:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D6E6F16A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:20:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ima_camper@yahoo.com) Received: from web30002.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30002.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 868AD43D45 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:20:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ima_camper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 63146 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2005 19:20:50 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=g0BjboAQxZA4OH/FeVkwwSViur+iIAv5I0poo10FR9v21T6rmAR1o2dm2/Bcn6RjPoma0oJlqIc6QWC1NEiSjPbhMOMdvm23Msxzb7LdSOBtasmoQpFx/ZLTfsU/r2EN7oKqrhhX8zsASump7ZbJYHKJTg7Z5SYCJRF7mQO8RdU= ; Message-ID: <20050722192050.63144.qmail@web30002.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.107.42.217] by web30002.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:20:50 PDT Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Ima Camper To: Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna In-Reply-To: <42E145D4.8000404@hacked.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Mount Root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:20:54 -0000 --- Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna 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: 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 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