SV: cannot mount disk with hammer file system

[Alex Hornung]

Thanks, but serno.jpg is missing the most important bit; the window had
a scrollbar and the last bit of every line was cut.

Can you please resend without the scrollbar?

Regards,
Alex

On 23/02/11 21:31, Úlfar Ellenarson wrote:
> Hi Alex.
>  
> Here is a screenshot of
> /mnt/boot/loader.conf/mnt/dev/serno/mnt/dev/ad1s* and /mnt/etc/fstab
> sent as an attachment.
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> *Frá:* Alex Hornung [ahornung at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 23. febrúar 2011 13:44
> *Viðtakandi:* Úlfar Ellenarson
> *Afrit:* users at crater.dragonflybsd.org
> *Efni:* Re: cannot mount disk with hammer file system
> 
> The issue boils down to VirtualBox not having the same serial numbers
> for disks as vmware does. You should be able to figure out which one the
> right one is by listing the da* and ad* devices in /dev from a live CD.
> Alternatively, if VirtualBox supports disk serial numbers, doing ls
> /dev/serno will yield the information, as others have told you.
> 
> By the way, if you have attached screenshots, they definitely haven't
> arrived here Can you please repost them somehow, possibly on imageshack
> or so and providing a link?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Alex Hornung
> 
> On 23 February 2011 12:27, Úlfar Ellenarson <uel at applicon.is
> <mailto:uel at applicon.is>> wrote:
> 
>     HI Antonio.
> 
>      
> 
>     Thank you for your posts and help.  I have taken a screenshot of the
>     mounted etc/fstab or better said /mnt/etc/fstab and I have also ls
>     –l /mnt/dev/serno.  The only thing is I have not looked into the
>     loader.conf which I reckon is mostly likely either in /boot or
>     /etc.  I think the problem is that dragonflybsd is not creating the
>     devices upon boot because I have moved the system from vmware
>     workstation 6.5 to virtualbox 4.04.  I have looked into the man 8
>     boot page, however there is considerably less information about
>     dragonfly bsd on the web than linux.  I have converted linux
>     physical machines using rsync, cpio, and netcat to vmware, but I
>     have little experience with dragonfly.
> 
>      
> 
>     Kind regards,
> 
>     Úlfar Ellenson
> 
>      
> 
>     *From:*Antonio Huete Jimenez [mailto:ahuete.devel at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ahuete.devel at gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:14 PM
>     *To:* Úlfar Ellenarson
>     *Cc:* users at crater.dragonflybsd.org
>     <mailto:users at crater.dragonflybsd.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: cannot mount disk with hammer file system
> 
>      
> 
>     Hi Úlfar,
> 
>     Boot the livecd and mount the disk where DFly is installed in, then
>     provide this:
> 
>     - Do a 'ls -l /dev/serno'
>     - fstab of the installed system (not the LiveCD)
>     - loader.conf from the installed system (it should be in the boot
>     directory)
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Antonio Huete
> 
>     2011/2/23 Úlfar Ellenarson <uel at applicon.is <mailto:uel at applicon.is>>
> 
>     Added information regarding boot problem.
> 
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>     The message upon boot is:
> 
>     Mounting root from hammer:serno/000000000000000000001.s1d
> 
>     tryroot serno/0000000000000000000001.s1d
> 
>     no disk named 'serno/00000000000000000000001.s1d'
> 
>     hammer_mountroot: can't find devvp
> 
>     boot mount failed:  6
> 
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>     mountroot
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>     *From:*users-errors at crater.dragonflybsd.org
>     <mailto:users-errors at crater.dragonflybsd.org>
>     [mailto:users-errors at crater.dragonflybsd.org
>     <mailto:users-errors at crater.dragonflybsd.org>] *On Behalf Of *Úlfar
>     Ellenarson
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:35 PM
>     *To:* users at crater.dragonflybsd.org
>     <mailto:users at crater.dragonflybsd.org>
>     *Subject:* cannot mount disk with hammer file system
> 
>      
> 
>     Hi.
> 
>      
> 
>     My first time posting on this list.   My problem in a nutshell is I
>     installed dragonfly bsd 2.8 in vmware workstation.  I reinstalled
>     the host system that vmware workstation was on and decided on using
>     virtualbox.  I imported my dragonfly bsd vmware workstatation vmdk
>     files into virtualbox.  Upon boot in virtualbox I run into the
>     problem of mounting the disk.  I am prompted at the boot prompt to
>     detect the disk that the system resides on.  I have tried
>     hammer:ad0s1, hammer:ad0s1a, hammer:ad0s1d and just ad0s1.  I am
>     however not able to boot the system.  I have also booted from the
>     live iso image and mounted the system manually into /mnt using
>     mount_hammer /dev/ad0s1a /mnt and took a screenshot of /etc/fstab. 
>     I however ask if there is a simple way to fix my mount problem.  Any
>     information needed in regards to solving this problem will be gladly
>     appended.
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>     *kær kveðju/kind regards,*
> 
>     ** 
> 
>     *Úlfar Ellenarson*
>     SAP ráðgjafi / SAP Consultant
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