I decided to update from 1.2.3 to 2.0 Beta 1. Instead of updating in place, I took advantage of the opportunity to update to a newer hard drive at the same time, leaving my 1.2.3 install intact.
This is for a net5501, so I put the new hdd in another machine and booted from the PFS live CD and installed from there. The desktop recognizes the hdd as SATA and configures /dev/ad4s1a as / in /etc/fstab. But this doesn't translate well on the net5501, whose BIOS recognizes the SATA drive as the primary slave, and a boot error occurs. So I booted into the live CD again and edited /etc/fstab manually, designating /dev/ad1s1a as /. Looking at /etc/fstab on the hdd of the working 1.2.3 install reveals this as the proper value there. Unfortunately I'm still getting the same boot error "0:ad(0,a) /boot/loader not found". I also tried /dev/ad0s1a, but no change. Any idea why /dev/ad1s1a works in 1.2.3 but not for 2.0 on the same hardware? What should I try next to get this to boot? Thanks. db --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
