Can't find rootvp if booting with a plugged-in firewire HD

[Daniel S. Haischt]

OK - I did find the answer ...

After plugging-in the firewire device, /dev/da0
changes to /dev/da1 while botting and /dev/da1
(aka firewire) changes to /dev/da0.

How can it be accomplished that /dev/da0
(my non-removable SCSI disk) remains /dev/da0,
no matter how many removable drives are added
to the system?

I already did set the ATA_STATIC_ID option in
my kernel configuration file.

I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE.

Regards

Daniel S. Haischt

Daniel S. Haischt schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem after adding a firewire hard
> disk to my system. I did format and label the
> drive and the drive works without any problem.
> 
> After a reboot I am getting the following message
> after the firewire was detected:
> 
> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> 
> The firewire disk is /dev/da1 and my root (/)
> partition is /dev/da0s1a. After getting the above
> error message I am getting a boot prompt which
> allows me to manually specify an appropriate
> device. If typing ? to get a list of available
> devices, /dev/da0s1a is missing.
> 
> I guess the solution to is problem is pretty
> trivial, but at the time I am to blind to see
> the solution.
> 
> Any hints on how to solve this issue would be
> appreciated.
>