No controller detected when boot FreeBSD 7.0
vardyh
vardyh at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 13:06:11 UTC 2008
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> vardyh wrote:
>> 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.
>
>> 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:
>> <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>> eg. ufs:da0s1a
>> ? List valid disk boot devices
>> <empty line> 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.
>
> Ah. This is a different problem, unrelated to the 'no controller
> detected' message. Unless you actually /do/ have a controller driven
> by hptrr(4)?
>
> Basically your problem is that /dev/ad0 has disappeared -- and as that's
> where the boot code expected to mount the root filesystem from, it
> threw a big spanner in the works.
>
> Now, ad0 can disappear for a number of reasons:
>
> * the disk has died
>
> * the disk was unplugged and then not plugged back in again
> properly
>
> * the disk was plugged into a different connector internally
> (it could appear as one of ad1, ad2 or ad3 in this case)
>
> * you changed some BIOS settings and now the system is presenting
> the disk as a SATA device (it could appear as ad4 or ad6 in
> this case)
>
> * you changed some BIOS settings and now the system has tried to
> generate some sort of RAID from the attached drives -- this could
> appear as ar0, or it could prevent FreeBSD seeing the drive(s) at
> all or it could have just shredded the contents of your disk and
> left you up a gum tree. (Normally you would have had to click
> through several dire warning messages in the last case, so this
> eventuality shouldn't have been particularly surprising to you)
>
> Check all the connectors. Check the disk is properly seated, especially
> if it's a hotswap device. Try booting up the installation media or a
> Freesbie disk or any sort of LiveCD and see what hardware the kernel
> discovers at boot time. If you have been changing BIOS settings, try
> changing them back to what they were originally.
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
But it's weird that I didn't change any of the mentioned above. After I
removed the 'console=Xxx' from loader.conf, it booted successfully. It
seemed that the console option was the only matter. But I can't figure
out how THAT option affected the adN device when booting up.
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