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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:07:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.05R panics on boot
Message-ID:  <199506191607.JAA01169@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506191255.WAA02612@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 19, 95 10:55:16 pm

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> 
> >Okay.... here is the output if I let the Ontrack DM load the dynamic 
> >overlay and then use the option to boot from the boot.flp.
> 
> >If I choose wd(1,a)/kernel.GENERIC -v
> 
> >FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 10 10:46:56  1995
> >...
> >wd0: 814MB (1667232 sectors), 1654 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> >...
> >wd1: 518MB (1061424 sectors), 1053 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> >...
> >changing root device to wd1a
> >BIOS Geometries:
> > 0:03391f3f 825 cyl, 31 heads, 63 sects
> > 1:03fd0f3f 1021 cyl, 15 heads, 63 sects
> > 0 accounted for
> >wd1s1: type 0xa5, start 63, end = 1061423, size 1061361 : OK
> 
> This all seems OK.
> 
> >------------
> >Notice that no where in the boot process does it mention about the 
> >Ontrack DM.
> 
> This is OK.  wd0 isn't looked at since your'e not trying to boot
> from it, so Ontrack isn't seen to be on it.  It would be seen when the
> DOS partition is mounted if you got that far.
> 
> Now if I use hd(1,a)/kernel.GENERIC -v (which I know I am 
> >not supposed to)...
> 
> >It shows these extra lines after the "0 accounted for"
> >wd0: Found "Ontrack Disk Manager" on this disk.
> >wd0s1: type 0x1, start 126, end=1665278, size 1665153 : OK
> >panic: cannot mount root
> 
> This is normal.  hd(1,a) becomes wd0a, which you don't have, but
> Ontrack gets noticed when wd0 is looked at in the failed attempt to
> open wd0a.

I think you really meant to say ``hd(1,a) becomes sd0a, which...''



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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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