Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sf@arachna.com Subject: Re: I'm burning... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626104305.25008a-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980625142125.2181D-100000@mail.gamespot.com>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ian Kallen wrote: > > I'm kind of burning in hell right now. I'm installing CURRENT onto a > system with a 3940 controller that has the AIC-7895 chip. OK fine. I > found the boot floppy that has the CAM stuff in it at > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ > and did my install thing, copied the CAM aware kernel and chflag'd schg. > Now the system comes up and sees the 3940 busses as ahc0 and ahc1, as I > expected but it can't mount root. It's sees the disks and barfs, > something like this: > da0: 4095Mb (normal looking disk recognition stuff) > error 6: panic: cannot mount root > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this > installation? The boot disk probably moved after the disk probes; try changing the FreeBSD boot disk to SCSI ID 0. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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