Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt

[Ean Kingston]

On February 12, 2005 12:18 pm, you wrote:
>   >   On February 11, 2005 09:42 pm, Scott wrote:
>   >    >   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
>   >
>   >   Your problem may be that you have two
>   >   drives on the same connector that are both
>   >   configured as the master. You need to
>   >   switch the ad1 drive to be the slave.
>
> Thanks Ean,
>
> That was an error in my posting. The second drive
> actually does show on the output as "slave". I
> retyped that into my message from the screen and
> copied and pasted that line and didn't change the
> "master" to "slave". It actually does show master and
> slave correctly.

Okay. No problem. I didn't see anything else wrong with what you posted.
For what it's worth, I've got an almost identical setup except my drives are 
120GB ATA-100.

> The master/slave settings are actually correct. Sorry
> for the confusion.
>
> I'm going to try to install 5.2.1 again and see if I still
> have the same issue.
>
>   >    >   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.

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Ean Kingston

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