From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 30 15:00:12 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6291D9AFAA1 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allan@physics.umn.edu) Received: from mail.physics.umn.edu (smtp.spa.umn.edu [128.101.220.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44CF31964 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allan@physics.umn.edu) Received: from c-66-41-25-68.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([66.41.25.68] helo=[192.168.0.117]) by mail.physics.umn.edu with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKpJT-000AIW-O3; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:00:03 -0500 Message-ID: <55BA3BF1.9090807@physics.umn.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:00:01 -0500 From: Graham Allan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pluggin fibre moves boot disk from da0 to da1 = cannot mountroot References: <201507301235.t6UCZABN000938@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201507301235.t6UCZABN000938@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:00:12 -0000 Yes, we used to run into this a lot with certain servers where an add-in HBA took precedence over the onboard controller hosting the OS drive. You can hardwire the scsi bus in /boot/device.hints with something like: hint.scbus.0.at="mpt0" Graham On 7/30/2015 7:35 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I think I asked this before, but cannot > find the answer in the archives. > This server has a single scsi disk, da0. > I can boot fine. > > I then plug in a fibre card and attach > a fibre disk, which I want to be da1, > so that I can boot as normal. > > However, now the boot stops at mountroot> > because apparently fibre is identified as da0 > and the scsi disk as da1, and I cannot > boot from da0 anymore. > > What is the solution to this? > Is there some device.hint option to say > that fibre must be after the scsi disk? > Or maybe some fibre delay, long enough > to ensure it's found only after root > has been mounted? > > Thanks > > Anton > _______________________________________________ > 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" >