Re: installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Spumonti wrote: The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I interrupt the boot process at: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: and enter: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel the machine will boot properly. I'v

Re: installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot

2004-08-06 Thread Mark
I don't own a dell power edge but I seem to remember another thread with this same problem and I think the problem seemed to be how the dell found the cdrom and harddrives, I think if you look at how the ide/ata cables are run, this may be the problem, but my memory is flakky hope this points yo

installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot

2004-08-06 Thread Spumonti
Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10 on a Dell PowerEdge 650. No problems with the install, tried creating a partition with "dangerously dedicated" and also, just using the entire disk with standard bootmanager. Each time, after the initial reboot I get an error: Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a Roo