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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:21:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        ddr@gwis.com (GWIS - Dan Roberts)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot hangs on "changing root device to da0s1a"
Message-ID:  <199910250221.WAA41720@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.991024184340.4652J-100000@gwis.com> from GWIS - Dan Roberts at "Oct 24, 1999 06:46:49 pm"

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GWIS - Dan Roberts wrote,
> I'm sorry, in my haste I forgot to mention that this system is running
> 3.3-RELEASE.. it's a Pentium Pro 200 with a Tyan Tomcat motherboard.  The
> array is built on a 4MB 2-channel DPT SmartRAID IV with 5 x 4GB Seagate
> Barracuda drives. 

[snip]

> When I bring the system up now, it gets through the device probes, finding
> everything including the array properly, but it gets to "changing root
> device to da0s1a" and the system just stops booting.
            ^^^^^^
Is that the correct location for where the root partition lives? What
devices does your RAID use?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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