Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt

[Ean Kingston]

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 <ST3160023A/8.01> [310101/16/63]
> at ata0-master UDMA66
> ad1: 152627MB <ST3160023A/8.01> [310101/16/63]
> at ata0-master UDMA66
> acd0: <CDU5211/YYS2> 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:
> <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem
> <fstype>
> eg. usf:da0s1a
>  ? List valid desk boot devices
> <empty line> 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
>
>
>
>
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Ean Kingston

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