From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 23 18:14:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA26288 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA26283 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00492; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bill Clark cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Setting up RIAD] In-Reply-To: <33FC3458.8800B79D@xoom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bill Clark wrote: > > > I have a problem which probably has a very simple solution, but as I'm > inexperienced with configuring multiple SCSI drives, I'm currently at a > loss. > I have FreeBSD installed on my machine, and need to add a RAID to it. > Apparently, the problem is that the device id's are being assigned > incorrectly upon booting, because the machine boots just fine with > nothing plugged into the secondary SCSI controller (aha2940 I believe... > it sees the drives okay in any event, so I doubt that's the problem). > When I plug in the RAID, the BIOS sees the drives just fine, FreeBSD > recognizes the drives correctly, but I get a "panic: cannot mount root" > at the very end, which leads me to believe that it's assigning the > devices incorrectly, and thinks that the first SCSI drive in the RAID is > the root filesystem. I assume I'll have to hard-code in the devices, so > everything gets assigned in a consistent manner, but I'm not sure, and > am not clear on how to do this anyway (and don't want to waste my time > playing around with it if this isn't going to solve the problem). With > the RAID plugged in, sysinstall sees *only* the first four drives in the > RAID (on the _secondary_ controller card), but unplugged it sees the > three internal drives (primary card). Any ideas, or details on what > additional information I should provide to somebody assisting me with > this? Read /sys/i386/conf/LINT on wiring down SCSI devices. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo