Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:28:16 -0600 From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger@championelevators.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID + adaptec 2400A Message-ID: <200212161228.16438.mbettinger@championelevators.com> In-Reply-To: <20021215111600.GC15884@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <3DFC20E5.5060706@houston.rr.com> <20021215111600.GC15884@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Sunday 15 December 2002 05:16 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:27:49AM -0600, mattb wrote: > > The disc loads up and I can get to the kernel configuration menu...7 > > conflicts. I take care of the conflicts and the machine continues to > > load the kernel.. loads up asr0 ok. > > The machine then attempts to mount root from /dev/fd0c for some reason. > > When it can't mount /dev/fd0c it drops into an mountroot> prompt and I > > haven't been ableto get past this. Still having some major issues trying to get this box installed. > > Hmmm... That's not necessarily a problem with the raid card as such. > The 'root' that the system is trying to mount at that point is the > filesystem on the CDRom drive. Do you see any mention of your CD > drive in the boot messages? Nb. the fact that the BIOS can see the CD > well enough for it to boot the kernel from it in no way precludes > FreeBSD from being unable to see the device well enough to mount a > filesystem from it... I went into SMOR (cntrl-A) at bootup and configured the drives on the raid card as RAID-0 and actually got OpenBSD FloppyB to boot and configure the disks after disabling DMA mode. I'd prefer to use FreeBSD. > A quick'n'dirty way to get around the problem is to grab the bootable > floppy images and build install floppies (Handbook, section 2.2.7 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html) > and use those to do a network install. Using the same configuration which worked with OpenBSD I booted off of the 4.7 cd and it still attempts to mount root file system from /dev/fd0c. I tried booting off of the cdrom and get all the way to kernel configuration mode, remove the 7 conflicting devices and hit Q. The kernel proceeds to load and I can see the asr0 device and my cdrom device and my floppy device. It's always trying to mount root on /dev/fd0c for some strange reason. If I disable the floppy in the bios and remove it from the kernel I still can't get anywhere. I'm pretty much at a loss now. If anyone knows how to get this card working in FreeBSD or linux I would appreciate it. It's going back to Windows 2000 Advanced Server if I can't get this. Thanks for any assistance. Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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