Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:38:35 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a DockStar - doesn't mount root Message-ID: <20110207163835.41be5884.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <201102062331.01760.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20110206181659.869861bf.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <201102061955.38635.freebsd-arm@dino.sk> <20110206231720.e113a196.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <201102062331.01760.hselasky@c2i.net>
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Hello,
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:31:01 +0100
Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2011 23:17:20 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:55:37 +0100
> >
> > Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk> wrote:
> > > Did you try typing several dots to test whether some more time to mount
> > > root device helps? I would try it, sometimes it helps... Just some more
> > > time for background tasks (one dot means one second, It I am not
> > > mistaken).
> >
> > I'm not really sure how it is suposed to be, I tried
> > .....ufs:/dev/ufs/kirkwoodroot
> >
> > and that didn't have any effect.
>
> Maybe you need to set the scsi delay sysctl, to give the drive more time to
> probe. Search the mailing lists :-)
Thanks to Milan I now know how to perform the "dot trick" - thanks! :-)
It seems to my mountroot prompt is a bit different, it doesn't mention
'.' as a "command" for the prompt, and it says it is trying to mount
from it:
mountroot> ?
List of GEOM managed disk devices:
Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=
vfs.root.mountfrom.options=
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
eg. cd9660:/dev/acd0
This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> Abort manual input
mountroot> .
Trying to mount root from .
Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=
vfs.root.mountfrom.options=
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
eg. cd9660:/dev/acd0
This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> Abort manual input
mountroot> ?
List of GEOM managed disk devices:
Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=
vfs.root.mountfrom.options=
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
eg. cd9660:/dev/acd0
This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> Abort manual input
mountroot>
Unfortunately, it doesn't help. I have tried waiting ten minutes -
still no devices to boot from.
So it seems like this isn't a "delay" type problem.
--
Torfinn
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