Subject: Re: Experiences on Promise FastTrak S150 (pdcsata)
To: Joseph A. Dacuma <jadacuma@ched.gov.ph>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/21/2006 22:42:54
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:27:01AM +0800, Joseph A. Dacuma wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> Firstly, kudos to all NetBSD developers for successfuly releasing 3.1!
> 
> A few days ago, I tried installing NetBSD 3.1 on a machine using a Promise
> FastTrack S150 TX2 plus (pdc20371) after reading what's new for 3.1. The
> card was configured using a RAID 1 set-up (mirror) with pair of identcal
> Segate 160 GB SATA drives (st3160812as).
> 
> Installation was successful using generic mp kernel and ld0 as the target
> device for installing sets. However, during the first boot-up I noticed
> something unusual:
> 
> ld0 at ataraid0 vendtype 0 unit 0: Promise ATA RAID-1 array
> ld0: 149 GB, 19452 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 312500000 sectors
> WARNING: double match for boot device (wd0, wd1)
> WARNING: double match for boot device (wd0, ld0)
> 
> [...]
> WARNING: double match for boot device (wd0, wd1)
> WARNING: double match for boot device (wd0, ld0)
> boot device: wd0
              ^^^^

That's your problem, it should be ld0. You can 'boot -a' and select ld0
by hand; then rebuild a kernel with root on ld0.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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