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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:28:04 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        Nick Tonkin <nick@rlnt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble mounting the root filesystem
Message-ID:  <20021004132804.GA21467@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210032245360.75299-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210032245360.75299-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>

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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:02:24PM -0700, Nick Tonkin typed:
> 	
> 
> 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:

You can not just put /etc on another filesystem. Many scripts and files
(/etc/rc, /etc/fstab to name two) are needed early in the boot proces, when
only root is mounted. This has nothing to do with your raid controller.

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
> Nick Tonkin   {|8^)>
> 
> 
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