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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 19:20:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher T. Griffiths" <cgriffiths@quansoo.com>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrade from 3.4 to 4.0 with ida driver 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031917190.678-100000@defiant.quansoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031726150.668-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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Excellent,

Would you mind letting me know when this is done? I appreciate the
response.

Thanks a whole bunch.

Chris

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote:
> > I sent this to freebsd-questions with no luck.  I am desperately
> > trying to figure out this problem.
> 
> I'll MFC the fix for this later this week.
> 
> > Christopher T. Griffiths	        
> > Engineering Department
> > Quansoo Group Inc.
> > cgriffiths@quansoo.com
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I have been working for a good part of the day trying to get my compaq
> > system upgraded from 3.4 -stable to 4.0 -stable.
> > 
> > I am using the following hardware:
> > 
> > Compaq Proliant 1850R Server
> > Smart Array 3200 Controller
> > 1 Raid 1 array
> > 
> > I have been running 3.4 for several months on this system with zero
> > problems.
> > 
> > I have followed all of the Instructions in the Updating file and setup a
> > custom kernel configured to use the ata and ida drivers (attached).
> > 
> > There is only one problem:
> > 
> > I am getting the following on bootup when the kernel boots and tries to
> > change to the root device I get the following:
> > 
> > ta0-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
> > ata0-slave: identify failed
> > acd0: CDROM <CD-224E> at ata0-master using PIO4
> > no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0200000)
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/idad0a
> > no such device 'idad'
> > setrootbyname failed
> > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> > Root mount failed: 6
> > 
> > Manual root filesystem specification:
> >   <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
> >                        eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> >   ?                  List valid disk boot devices
> >   <empty line>       Abort manual input
> >   
> > mountroot> ufs:/dev/id0a /
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/id0a /
> > 
> > My /etc/fstab contains the following:
> > 
> > # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> > Pass#
> > /dev/idad0b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> > /dev/idad0a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> > /dev/idad0f             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> > /dev/idad0e             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> > proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
> > 
> > 
> > I have tried rebuilding the bootloader but no luck.
> > 
> > It seems that when I imput /dev/id0a into mountroot prompt it then mounts
> > root and changes over to /dev/idad0a which is in my fstab.
> > 
> > The funny thing is that there is no /dev/id0a in /dev and it will not
> > allow me to build it either.
> > 
> > I also posted a much more crazy post earlier but have since fixed most of
> > the problems except this one.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Chris
> > ---
> > Christopher T. Griffiths	        
> > Engineering Department
> > Quansoo Group Inc.
> > cgriffiths@quansoo.com
> > 
> 
> -- 
> | Matthew N. Dodd  | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD  |
> | winter@jurai.net |       2 x '84 Volvo 245DL        | ix86,sparc,pmax |
> | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent  | ISO8802.5 4ever |
> 
> 




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