I have a frustrating problem.
I'm booting up release 8, and mountroot can't find, or mount the root slice.
The system BIOS can see the drive. It loads the kernel, but when it comes
to mounting root, the system can't see the drive, or slice.
I get the mountroot prompt, if I hit ? I see NO drives at all.
It's very frustrating, because the problem is intermittent.
The boot drive is an SD card, and if I plug the SD card into an external USB reader, into a specific port, it USUALLY sees the drive.
If I plug the sd card to an internal SD port, (using ant IDE interface) mountroot NEVER sees the slice, (but again, still boots the kernel)
We thought it was the kernel (with some funky optimization, or flags) but if we boot just generic kernel the same thing.
We are thinking it might be a hardware problem, but aren't sure yet.
Any suggestions?
PS: I formatted the file system with newfs -L
I'm booting up release 8, and mountroot can't find, or mount the root slice.
The system BIOS can see the drive. It loads the kernel, but when it comes
to mounting root, the system can't see the drive, or slice.
I get the mountroot prompt, if I hit ? I see NO drives at all.
It's very frustrating, because the problem is intermittent.
The boot drive is an SD card, and if I plug the SD card into an external USB reader, into a specific port, it USUALLY sees the drive.
If I plug the sd card to an internal SD port, (using ant IDE interface) mountroot NEVER sees the slice, (but again, still boots the kernel)
We thought it was the kernel (with some funky optimization, or flags) but if we boot just generic kernel the same thing.
We are thinking it might be a hardware problem, but aren't sure yet.
Any suggestions?
PS: I formatted the file system with newfs -L