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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nick Tonkin <nick@rlnt.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Trouble mounting the root filesystem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210032245360.75299-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>

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Hello,

Seems my new FreeBSD system can't mount from my RAID controller.

Just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a shiny new box with a Promise Fasttrack
100 onboard ATA RAID controller.

The OS seems to recognize the array no problem:

ar0: 38166MB ,ATA RAID1 array. [4865/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
 0 READY ad4: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-00DEA0> [77545/16/63] at ata2-master ~
UDMA 100
 0 READY ad6: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-00DEA0> [77545/16/63] at ata3-master ~
UDMA 100

But when I boot the system I just get the old:

Manual root filesystem specification:
  <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
		       eg. ufs:da0s1a
  ?		     List valid disk boot devices
  <empty line>	     Abort manual input

mountroot>


So I do what it says:

mountroot>ufs:/dev/ar0s1a  <<--- I can use ar0, ar0s1, ar0s1a: same effect
Oct 3 23:00:17 init: login_getclass: unknown class 'daemon'
/etc/rc: Can't open /etc/rc: No such file or directory
Oct 3 23:00:17 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:


So it looks like only the / fs mounted. So I mount the rest by hand:

# mount /dev/ar0s1e /var
# mount /dev/ar0s1f /etc
# mount /dev/ar0s1g /usr

But then when I check to see what happened:
# mount
/dev/ar0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only)
/dev/ar0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ar0s1f on /etc (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ar0s1g on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)

So it only mounts / read-only ... what's up with that?

Any advice on how to get the system to automatically mount the filesystems
we defined greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

- nick

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Nick Tonkin   {|8^)>



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