From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 15:45:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95FD16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E6643D1D for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:45:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from localhost.hedron.org (localhost.hedron.org [127.0.0.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3995BC0C5 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ean Kingston To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:45:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <2005211204233.443160@IBM-R40> In-Reply-To: <2005211204233.443160@IBM-R40> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502121045.36562.ean@hedron.org> Subject: Re: Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:45:25 -0000 On February 11, 2005 09:42 pm, Scott wrote: > I will really appreciate it of someone can help > me out. > > I am installing 5.3 on a dual p3 server. I have > two 160 gig Seagate IDE drives on the first IDE > connector, and a CD rom on the 2nd IDE connector. > I have reinstalled several times with different > drive configurations and keep getting stuck at > the same place. > > At boot, the normal countdown loader comes up and > it begins to boot. The boot message gets to this > drive section below and then stops at a > "mountroot>" prompt. > > Begin copy ....... > > ad0: 152627MB [310101/16/63] > at ata0-master UDMA66 > ad1: 152627MB [310101/16/63] > at ata0-master UDMA66 > acd0: at ata1-master PIO4 Your problem may be that you have two drives on the same connector that are both configured as the master. You need to switch the ad1 drive to be the slave. > > Manual root filesystem specification: > : Mount using filesystem > > eg. usf:da0s1a > ? List valid desk boot devices > Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > ............ End copy > > If I type: ufs:ad0s1a > at that "mountroot>" > prompt, it will boot normally and as far as I can > tell, all is working like I would expect. I > suspected this may have something to do with my > fstab but it looks normal to me: > > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad1s1d /backup ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > Please let me know if I can provide more > information that will help you help me know > what to do to get it to automatically go on > to boot ad0s1a. > > Thanks much, > Scott > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/