weird loader problem

Johannes Hofmann johannes.hofmann at gmx.de
Thu Jul 31 08:22:56 PDT 2008


YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:31:46PM +0000, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
>> When I try to load more than 5 modules via loader.conf, my kernel
>> no longer finds the root filesystem.
>> Booting in "Safe Mode" still works.
>> As far as I can tell this is independent of which modules I actually
>> load.
>> I'm running 2.0 release more or less, so I don't yet have the
>> latest changes to gpt.
>> 
>> Is anyone else seeing this weird problem?
> 
> Does the number include modules which are loaded but not probed?

I think it's independent of whether the corresponding hardware is
there or not.

> 
> I'm not sure if it's the same problem as yours, but on one of the mainboard
> misses ata device(thus won't find the root filesystem) if the kernel config
> contains `options natapicam' line without a SCSI controller and a SCSI device
> (e.g. aha0 and asr).  If I remove natapicam line, or include SCSI controllers
> and devices, it boot fine with 10 modules loaded via /boot/loader.conf.

If it fails, my root disk is detected, but it is detected as ad1 instead of ad0.

 Johannes





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