Can't Mount Root

[Ima Camper]

--- Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna <ds at hacked.com.br>
wrote:

> Have u tried "lsdev" to see what disks the boot
> found?

That doesn't seem to work here:

mountroot> lsdev
panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted.

You might be thinking of the boot> prompt.  But
anyway, my disk is found:

da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE SX19171W 9D32> Fixed Direct Access
SCSI-2 device 
da0: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit),
Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 8683MB (17783112 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T
8683C)

Thanks for the idea!

Drew

> 
> Ima Camper wrote:
> 
> >--- Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Ima Camper wrote:
> >>[ ... ]
> >>    
> >>
> >>>da0 is my boot disk and contains /.  However when
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I
> >>    
> >>
> >>>configured the disk using sysinstall during
> >>>installation, I set it up as "dangerously
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>dedicated". 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Now I wonder if my problem is that I should have
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>used
> >>    
> >>
> >>>"bsdlabel -B /dev/da0" instead of "da0s1a" when
> >>>attempting to install boot blocks?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I suspect your device name ought to be /dev/da0a.
> >>If you are at the boot prompt, what happens if you
> >>enter a "?"...?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Entering a "?" or anything else so far results in
> >this:
> >
> >mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0a
> >panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted.
> >cpuid = 0
> >boot() called on cpu#0
> >Uptime: 1h59m17s
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Anyway, if you tell it the right place, and your
> >>fstab is OK, you ought to boot 
> >>into the system as normal, from which point you
> can
> >>re-run bsdlabel with the 
> >>right device name.
> >>
> >>Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the
> >>command from a shell.  You 
> >>can also begin a custom install and exit after
> wrws;
> >>g just a new boot block 
> >>via sysinstall, too.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Thanks for the ideas.  I will try more when I get
> >home.  All I have available now is a serial console
> >(that sometimes is at 115200 baud and sometimes at
> >9600 baud) so I can't try anything other than
> various
> >iterations of root devices.
> >
> >Please send any other ideas to try if you have
> them.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Drew
> >
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