Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:44:47 +0100 From: Richard Smith <rdls@satamatics.com> To: Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing on RAID? Message-ID: <20010815004447.A1279@gaia.home.rdls.net> In-Reply-To: <3B79A3D3.22543734@jwebmedia.com>; from joe@jwebmedia.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:18:58PM -0500 References: <3B79903C.CD6A40C3@jwebmedia.com> <3B79A3D3.22543734@jwebmedia.com>
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:18:58PM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > In case this helps in explaing my previous post heres some more info. > When I install the system, it finds 2 containers aacd00 and aacd01. I > install the system onto either one, or both of the containers (I've > tried both). The last time, I installed to aacd01. All goes well until > after the install when the system reboots. This is what I get: > > no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0200000) > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a > no such device 'aacd' > setrootbyname failed > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > Root mount failed: 6 I don't have the answer, but some of this may help. You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you are using, or the machine or the RAID controller you are attempting to install onto. I am using a similar RAID controller to you: aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Di> mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 2 at device 2.1 on pci2 aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 126MB total memory, optional battery present (3) aac0: Kernel 2.5-0, S/N fafaf001c91010d2 which has a single RAID 5 container: aacd0: <RAID 5> on aac0 aacd0: 69425MB (142182912 sectors) IIRC, I don't install the boot manager, I take the second option and install a regular MBR. You're more likely to have success installing on the first container, ISTM that the boot process is progressing nicely until it finds out that the root partition is not on the first container. -- Richard Smith Network Systems Director Satamatics Ltd Green Lane, Tewkesbury, GL20 8HD, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1684 278610 Fax: +44 1684 278611 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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