From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 0:20:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9447937B41F for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA16298 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:20:32 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:20:32 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Glass Message-Id: <200201090820.BAA16298@lariat.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving the boot disk to another controller 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 I'm working on upgrading a server, and have encountered a frustrating problem. This server has dual IDE controllers on the motherboard, but they're slow -- 33 MHz max. So, I bought an Promise PCI Ultra100 controller and plugged it into a PCI slot. I then took the boot drive and plugged it into the new controller. Once I did this and reconfigured the BIOS, the system would load the kernel and get partway through the boot sequence but then freeze up. From the messages on the screen, it appears that, even though it had properly loaded the kernel from the hard drive, it couldn't find its root filesystem later on in the boot sequence and so could not boot up. I changed /etc/fstab before the shift so that the system would know that /dev/ad4s1a was to be root, etc.; however, there are apparently other things to shift as well. What did I miss? --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message