Danny Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to replace the motherboard in my FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE
server for a different one. The old board has on-board Adaptec
AIC-7896N SCSI, the new one has on-board Symbios Ultra3 SCSI, on
bootup I get the following error -
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s0a
setrootbyname failed
ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Rootmount failed:6
Is there any way I can boot the drive on this new interface?
I haven't had to think about this in a long time, but I would expect
that telling the loader(8) where to find the root (root_disk_unit or
rootdev) should let it progress further. You'll still need to fix
/etc/fstab, I suspect.
I've searched the archives found a similar problem in which the
solution was to use dump to create a backup do a fresh install of
FreeBSD on the new system before restoring the backup. If I have to
take this route I might as well upgrade to 5.3, but I understand this
uses a different filesystem to 4.11, so would this give problems with
a restore from a 4.11 dump?
No. The UFS2 restore(8) understands UFS1 dump files.
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