Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:00:01 -0500 From: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pluggin fibre moves boot disk from da0 to da1 = cannot mountroot Message-ID: <55BA3BF1.9090807@physics.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <201507301235.t6UCZABN000938@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201507301235.t6UCZABN000938@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Yes, we used to run into this a lot with certain servers where an add-in HBA took precedence over the onboard controller hosting the OS drive. You can hardwire the scsi bus in /boot/device.hints with something like: hint.scbus.0.at="mpt0" Graham On 7/30/2015 7:35 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I think I asked this before, but cannot > find the answer in the archives. > This server has a single scsi disk, da0. > I can boot fine. > > I then plug in a fibre card and attach > a fibre disk, which I want to be da1, > so that I can boot as normal. > > However, now the boot stops at mountroot> > because apparently fibre is identified as da0 > and the scsi disk as da1, and I cannot > boot from da0 anymore. > > What is the solution to this? > Is there some device.hint option to say > that fibre must be after the scsi disk? > Or maybe some fibre delay, long enough > to ensure it's found only after root > has been mounted? > > Thanks > > Anton > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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