From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 10:35:17 2002 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 ECDE337B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.accelernet.net (smtp.accelernet.net [208.159.164.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32CD643EC5 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbettinger@championelevators.com) Received: (qmail 21394 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2002 18:35:09 -0000 Received: from 208-169-162-132.hou.accelernet.net (HELO helpdesk.championelevators.com) (208.169.162.132) by smtp.accelernet.net with SMTP; 16 Dec 2002 18:35:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Matthew Bettinger Reply-To: mbettinger@championelevators.com Organization: Champion Elevators, inc. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID + adaptec 2400A Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:28:16 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <3DFC20E5.5060706@houston.rr.com> <20021215111600.GC15884@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021215111600.GC15884@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212161228.16438.mbettinger@championelevators.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 reaso= n. > > 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 rai= d =20 card as RAID-0 and actually got OpenBSD FloppyB to boot and configure the= =20 disks after disabling DMA mode. I'd prefer to use FreeBSD. =20 > 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.h= tml) > and use those to do a network install. Using the same configuration which worked with OpenBSD I booted off of th= e 4.7=20 cd and it still attempts to mount root file system from /dev/fd0c. I tri= ed=20 booting off of the cdrom and get all the way to kernel configuration mode= ,=20 remove the 7 conflicting devices and hit Q. The kernel proceeds to load = and=20 I can see the asr0 device and my cdrom device and my floppy device. =20 It's always trying to mount root on /dev/fd0c for some strange reason. I= f I=20 disable the floppy in the bios and remove it from the kernel I still can'= t=20 get anywhere. I'm pretty much at a loss now. If anyone knows how to get= =20 this card working in FreeBSD or linux I would appreciate it. It's going = back=20 to Windows 2000 Advanced Server if I can't get this. Thanks for any=20 assistance. Matt=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message