Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt
Scott
info at sonservers.com
Sat Feb 12 07:36:12 GMT 2005
> 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
>
> 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.
One more thing I just found out, if it helps. If I just
let it boot, I get to the mountroot> prompt as above
and can boot the system after entering the location
of the root partition.
If I chose option 2 and boot with ACPI off, the drives
are not found and I get:
FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
errors on both the master and slave drives. At that point,
I get the mountroot> prompt again, but of course can
not mount the root partition.
So now I'm wondering why if I boot with ACPI on, the
drives are found, but root doesn't boot. With ACPI off,
the drives are not even found. I hope that helps
someone tell me where to look.
5.2.1 was booting off this same drive normally before
I replaced it with 5.3.
Thanks,
Scott
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