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Date:      Wed,  9 Jun 1999 18:35:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New snapshot on ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/
Message-ID:  <14174.60103.966068.989507@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906091237360.47523-100000@semuta.feral.com>
References:  <19990609090120.A26742@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906091237360.47523-100000@semuta.feral.com>

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Matthew Jacob writes:
 > > > 
 > > > We need more info than this. Clearly it's an ISP controller, but what did
 > > > the system think the root device wuz?
 > > 
 > > I'm not sure how to find the answer to this question.
 > 
 > Try a boot -v?
 > 
 > 

Sorry for not responding to this sooner.  I'm at USENIX & not checking 
my mail often...

I beleive the problem is that the code which guesses what device
you're booting from needs some updating & used to guess wrong on an
xp1000, meaning that it couldn't find a root device.  I committed a
patch (revision 1.27, 1999/05/29 ) which should fix the problem.  If
there is a newer snapshot, you should try a kernel from that.
Alternatively, if you have a way of getting a kernel installed on your
machine which was built from today's sources, that should work for
you.

Cheers,

Drew




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