From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 08:22:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AF21065672 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:22:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vardyh@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C4C8FC5D for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:22:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vardyh@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d27so2308248tid.3 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:21:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BATmq0fAbZ4KoDwCbTyanthWXpR/2kpGU6l+bq9tqQQ=; b=YTcLCqglGuQQKm6l4HHskPDcch8vo7Q2rP83mbjszrjSyeP7gsOT55JZyTUMz57yoT a8soG+kFbs7ZoX2QgB0tgaI6vgjoYff6Dz8a568Kjd5OGylnWxR30q2XnynO6eSMf7fk KqDhl99v8vRK8+phWSiCOiAFlWbEsQdSXRmAM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QdL0jNhNyNUJSJVHomi0dTl9tM/ignLj7w3OI3olm7DrdLzyRszq7OjkfiiEghXOdO Ah4JQEQkhxfNpHaGmF1CmhKhS64puJhcTlNJ4o+zMzEksZBSPSkw1epFSJabItLrNWiy gbmOoVX3eHPIMuhiQ8UjmLeAeOxUTVwb9Jct8= Received: by 10.110.20.17 with SMTP id 17mr7235641tit.12.1217319718550; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [221.223.111.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j5sm32886459tid.12.2008.07.29.01.21.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <488ED323.9050303@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:21:55 +0800 From: vardyh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <488DC689.2090102@gmail.com> <488DFE85.4030504@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <488DFE85.4030504@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No controller detected when boot FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:22:03 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > vardyh wrote: >> Hi all. >> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I added >> 'console="comconsole"' >> to /boot/loader.conf and I got >> 'hptrr: no controller detected.' >> on the next boot. I didn't change anything else except for the >> 'console=xxx'. >> And I had had no problem before that. Could anyone tell me why? >> I will very appreciate for your help :> > > This is just the driver for the HighPoint Rocket Raid controller being > a bit too verbose. It's detected that you don't have anything compatible > with hptrr(4) and (unlike the usual behaviour of most Raid Controller > drivers (or drivers for any sort of hardware really)) it considers > this fact to be of such vital importance that it really had to print out > something on the console. Needless to say such behaviour has already > been quashed in 7-STABLE and will not appear in 7.1-RELEASE. > > In other words, it's harmless and you can just ignore it. > I suspect that this output wasn't actually triggered by your changing > the console setting -- there's no conceivable way changing one should > affect the other -- but that changing the way the boot messages are > displayed has managed to draw your attention to it. You probably had > it before but never noticed. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > But, actually it claimed that no controller detected and asked me to specify the root filesystem manually, which wrote: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Manul root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input I tried ufs:/dev/ad0s1a, which was the real root filesystem registered in my /etc/fstab, but it still could not be mounted. And the same direction came out again to asked me to point out the root fs. I tried '?' also, but it seems that no disk devices were found... The kernel told me "List of GEOM managed disk devices:", and nothing but the same old direction followed. ...