Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:36:04 -0600 From: Scott <info@sonservers.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt Message-ID: <20052121364.733527@IBM-R40> In-Reply-To: <2005211204233.443160@IBM-R40>
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> I will really appreciate it of someone can > help > me out. > > I am installing 5.3 on a dual p3 server. I > have > two 160 gig Seagate IDE drives on the first > IDE > connector, and a CD rom on the 2nd IDE > connector. > I have reinstalled several times with > different > drive configurations and keep getting stuck > at > the same place. > > At boot, the normal countdown loader comes > up and > it begins to boot. The boot message gets to > this > drive section below and then stops at a > "mountroot>" prompt. > > Begin copy ....... > > ad0: 152627MB <ST3160023A/8.01> > [310101/16/63] > at ata0-master UDMA66 > ad1: 152627MB <ST3160023A/8.01> > [310101/16/63] > at ata0-master UDMA66 > acd0: <CDU5211/YYS2> at ata1-master PIO4 > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using > filesystem > <fstype> > eg. usf:da0s1a > ? List valid desk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > ............ End copy > > If I type: ufs:ad0s1a > at that "mountroot>" > prompt, it will boot normally and as far as > I can > tell, all is working like I would expect. I > suspected this may have something to do > with my > fstab but it looks normal to me: > > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad1s1d /backup ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > 0 0 > > Please let me know if I can provide more > information that will help you help me know > what to do to get it to automatically go on > to boot ad0s1a. One more thing I just found out, if it helps. If I just let it boot, I get to the mountroot> prompt as above and can boot the system after entering the location of the root partition. If I chose option 2 and boot with ACPI off, the drives are not found and I get: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out errors on both the master and slave drives. At that point, I get the mountroot> prompt again, but of course can not mount the root partition. So now I'm wondering why if I boot with ACPI on, the drives are found, but root doesn't boot. With ACPI off, the drives are not even found. I hope that helps someone tell me where to look. 5.2.1 was booting off this same drive normally before I replaced it with 5.3. Thanks, Scott
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