Mount Root error on transferred hard disk

onlineph

CURRENT MOBO:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo E7500 @2.93GHz
MSI
MS-7592

I am gona be using the onboard NIC plus another LAN Card.

This HD is one of the pf that I have installed directly to the HD (not VM).

stephenw10

Since all the managed devices are ad4 I'll assume that's where the HD is connected.
Start by trying at the mountroot> prompt:

ufs:/dev/ad4s1a

If it boots successfully with that then edit the fstab to point at the correct locations once it's booted.

Steve

onlineph

it rebooted but it encountered an error:

ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51 <ready, dsc,="" error="">error= <uncorrectable>LBA=100748… and alot of nubers.

does this mean it's a physical hard disk failure?</uncorrectable></ready,>

stephenw10

Not necessarily. It probably means it's trying to access the disk using some DMA mode but the disk or controller doesn't support it.

What disk/controller hardware are you using? Which pfSense install type? 32 or 64bit?

Steve

onlineph

am using a SATA HDD.

stephenw10

OK, and what pfSense version and install type is on that disk?

Steve

onlineph

2.0.3
Installed via USB

stephenw10

Ah, sorry, by install type I meant is it a full install, standard kernel maybe a full install, embedded kernel or is it a NanoBSD image? Also is it 32 or 64bit? That's probably not relevant but it's good to get all the details so other users can spot things.

Steve

onlineph

32bit
usbstick
standard kernel

stephenw10

Ok.
Here's a thread describing a very similar (maybe identical) problem: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=18463
Not really a useful outcome though.

I would try changing the HDD mode in the bios. If the SATA mode is set to AHCI try legacy or IDE compatible.

It could just be dead drive. Could be a bad cable or cable not inserted fully.

Steve