Can't boot from ad4: Device Not Configured?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote:

TK> I'm trying to move my drives from
TK> the slow built-in IDE controller to
TK> a faster PCI card (Promise ULTRA TX2).
TK> The boot loader succesfully loads the
TK> kernel, and the kernel succesfully probes
TK> the Promise controller and the hard
TK> disk connected to it.
TK>
TK> But the root mount fails with error 6,
TK> even after I type in "ufs:/dev/ad4s1a"
TK>
TK> I looked through the kernel config files
TK> and LINT and could find nothing that
TK> seemed relevant.
TK>
TK> Any advice gratefully appreciated.

/boot/loader.conf:

root_disk_unit="4"              # Force the root disk unit number


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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