On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:57:55 -0700 Jonathan Engwall <[email protected]> wrote:
> You are booting a server machine, you need to import the disk through the > controller as either a non-raid volume or a raid volume. If you are using a > "live" USB, as a Dragonfly USB can be used more-or-less, you still need to > select the device through the boot manager of the machine itself. > md0 and vn0 are raid and machine-raid. You want to find da or ad, I believe. > You should check your system hardware for the RAID controller. You need to > be sure that it will operate as a diskless machine or handle multiple disk > types. > This really has very little to do with Dragonfly. I use a PowerEdge too, it > works great and is a good decision I think. Thanks for your reply Jonathan ! The machine in question is not a server. It is tiny PC oftenly used in corporate environments. Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny M715q. It features an internal SATA drive and/or a M2 slot and your options end there. It has an AMD A10 APU with integrated R7 graphics. And not much more. When I typed ? after mountroot> I was expecting to see at least da8 and/or da8s1 etc which usually gets assigned to the USB key but it isn't there. Yes, I am using a dFly LiveCD to test whether it boots or not given my past (and failed) experiences with the PowerEdge server mentioned in my earlier posts. To be clear, after answering a post yesterday it came to my mind that it's been something like a half year since I tried to boot the aforementioned servers with dFly so I decided to give them a try with the latest image and by the way I also tried the image in this tiny PC which was sitting idle. This is the first time I see this issue. No luck with any of the machines for different reasons. dFly seems kinda elusive given my hardware :( By the way, the problem with my PowerEdge R610/R710/T710 servers is not "root mount failed", it seems to be with the handling of the efifb. After dFly boots I never get a working console: it seems "hanged" It is explained on one of my early posts: Installation 'halts' at boot after initializing UEFI framebuffer http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2019-March/358149.html 2019-03-24 PS: While writing this answer I tried the following liveCDs on the tiny PC hooked to a 1920x1200 LCD: pfSense 2.4.5.p1 (freeBSD 11.3) ... boots OK at 1920x1200 ! freeBSD RELEASE 11.3 .............. boots OK at 1920x1200 ! freeBSD RELEASE 11.4 .............. fails with: root mount failed freeBSD RELEASE 12.1 .............. fails with: root mount failed dragonFlyBSD development latest ... fails with: root mount failed also: many linux distros including latest archlinux, manjaro, and mint booted OK at 1920x1200
