Can't boot from ad4: Device Not Configured?

[Tim Kientzle]

a) Yes, I do.

b) It doesn't get that far.
    (The root hasn't yet been mounted, so the
    contents of /dev would seem to be immaterial.
    If you can't read the disk, it doesn't really
    matter what's on it. ;-)

Tim

Marc Schneiders wrote:

> You probably haven't got the drive in /dev.
> 
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, at 13:10 [=GMT-0700], Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>I'm trying to move my drives from
>>the slow built-in IDE controller to
>>a faster PCI card (Promise ULTRA TX2).
>>The boot loader succesfully loads the
>>kernel, and the kernel succesfully probes
>>the Promise controller and the hard
>>disk connected to it.
>>
>>But the root mount fails with error 6,
>>even after I type in "ufs:/dev/ad4s1a"
>>
>>I looked through the kernel config files
>>and LINT and could find nothing that
>>seemed relevant.
>>
>>Any advice gratefully appreciated.
>>
>>Tim Kientzle