From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 19:25: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AD537B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abstractfactory.org (fcahoon.dsl.visi.com [208.42.140.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445FB43E42 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrest@abstractfactory.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by garbarek.abstractfactory.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 183SFB-00037N-00; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:24:37 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:24:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <20021020.212435.39150113.forrest@abstractfactory.org> To: andrew@cream.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install problem -- can't mount disk From: Forrest Cahoon In-Reply-To: <3DB3584E.3070705@cream.org> References: <20021018.232535.92592630.forrest@abstractfactory.org> <3DB3584E.3070705@cream.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Andrew Boothman Subject: Re: Install problem -- can't mount disk Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:46 +0100 > Forrest Cahoon wrote: > > The machine boots, but when it gets to the disk mounting part, here's > > what I see: > > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > no such device 'ad' > > setrootbyname failed > > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > > Root mount failed: 6 > > > > Then I get taken to the mountroot> prompt. > > Do you see your IDE controllers (ad devices) appear during the boot? Since I really don't know what I'm looking for here, I've just typed in the entire boot sequence; there are a few things that look suspicious, but I have no clue what's related to the disk: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 root@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (90.20-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5 Features=0x1bf real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) config> di sn0 config> di lnc0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 config> di cs0 config> di bt0 config> di aic0 config> di aha0 config> di adv0 config> q avail memory = 11362304 (11096K bytes) bios32: Bad BIOS32 Service Directory Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc050f000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc050f09c. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk pcibios: No call entry point npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0 x364-0x367,0x170-0x177,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 10.0 on pci0 atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported atapci0: Busmastering DMA disabled ata2: at 0x1f0 on atapci0 ata2: unable to allocate interrupt device_probe_and_attach: ata2 attach returned 6 ata3: at 0x170 on atapci0 ata3: unable to allocate interrupt device_probe_and_attach: ata3 attach returned 6 orm0: