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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:35:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Matthew Stein <matt@bdd.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help : kernel thinks it's on sd1, when actually sd0?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960712233335.829L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960710141138.23601F-100000@bdd.net>

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On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Matthew Stein wrote:

> config          kernel  root on sd0
> 
> ...is in there.  The kernel isn't making the decision here, I think it's
> the boot block, or the init.  The SCSI probe looks like this...
> 
> ncr0 <ncr 53c810 scsi> rev 2 int a irq 11 on pci0:11
> ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> (ncr0:0:0): "QUANTUM EMPIRE_1080S 1022" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access 
> sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.
> 1029MB (2109376 512 byte sectors)
> (ncr0:3:0): "MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-503 1.0f" type 5 removable SCSI 2
> 
> The problem is that before this SCSI probe, the kernel thinks it's on sd1.
> Even before the FREEBSD banner comes up with the kernel build time (before
> top lines shown in dmesg) it refers to sd1.  There isn't an sd1.

Hm. The boot blocks may be getting confused, or the NCR is, or something. 
:-)  I wonder if you need to rebuild the boot blocks and hint it in the 
right direction.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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