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.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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