#417 Manual root filesystem problem upon boot

[mike a]

my freenas machine(dell xps-t500) machine is installed with freenas version 0.686.
when trying to upgrade to newer versions the upgrade goes fine until restart.
this is what i get.

Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:da0s1a
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line=""> abort manual input
Mountroot>

same problem I get when running the livecd’s

is there a way to solve this or maybe with a fix in the newer version(s)?
I tried every version after 0.686.

mike

[Matt M]

Same issue here - v0.686.4 and v0.69b3 beta both exhibet this issue. v0.686 works fine though.

Dell Dimension XPS T700r
PIII 700MHz processor
768MB RAM
unknown 10/100 wired eithernet (works)
Linksys WUSG54G wireless-G (unsupported?)

Sorry I can't provide any more hardware details, this was a free computer that I saved from the trash...don't know what all is in it...

I really hope this gets fixed soon, I tried the newer versions in VirtualPC and they look good...if only they'd work on the hardware I'm using...

[mike a]

Yesterday i tried to run from Livecd 0.69b3 and had the same problem :(

[Shane Meagher]

I am having the same problem when trying to boot version 0.686.1 (0.686 is ok) on Dell Dimension XPS T600.

Comparing the 'dmesg' when "Boot with Verbose Logging" for versions 0.68 & 0.686.1, it appears that the line: 'Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot"' is missing in version 0.868.1.

This results in md0 not being created and then mounted.

Unfortunately this is as far as I can get with my limited know how.

Hopefully somebody with a better knowledge of FreeNAS can explain why this happens.

Regards,
Shane Meagher

[stian]

I have the same problem with my AMD Geode LX 500Mhz board. Works fine up to 0.69b3. b4 and b5 have this problem.

[mike a]

yesterday i have tested the 069.rc2 and same problem.

i guess this this bug is not important to the programmers.