installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after
reboot with mountroot
Spumonti
spumonti at gmail.com
Fri Aug 6 17:21:18 PDT 2004
Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10 on a Dell PowerEdge 650. No
problems with the install, tried creating a partition with
"dangerously dedicated" and also, just using the entire disk with
standard bootmanager.
Each time, after the initial reboot I get an error:
Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a
Root mount failed: 6
Mounting root from ufs:ad0a
Root mount failed: 6
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> Abort manual input
mountroot>
I tried:
mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
but that fails too.
The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I
interrupt the boot process at:
>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:
and enter:
>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel
the machine will boot properly. I've tried two things I found while
checking on this:
1. Adding to loader.conf:
rootdev="disk4s1a"
root_disk_unit=0"
2. Rebuilding the kernel and adding:
options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:ad4s1a\"
Neither of which worked. Is there something I'm missing while doing
the installation? If I look in /dev the devices are there ad4,
ad4s1, ad4s1a, ad4s1b, etc.
About at wit's end ... any help would be great.
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