From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Oct 7 14:21: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gplsucks.org (mail.gplsucks.org [63.227.213.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343A037B503; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bwoods2@localhost) by mail.gplsucks.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e97LKiq00851; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:20:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Woods mail To: Mike Smith Cc: Bill Woods mail , "David O'Brien" , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot disk problems In-Reply-To: <200010072105.e97L5Hh04220@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OKOK, I paraphrased..... This is whats on the screen... A RED background with a grey box. in the box , in black letteringis "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)" and at the bottom in white letters I see this: Fatal Error: Unable to open disk da0 - PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT ------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Unless someone snuck some code in while I wasn't looking, there is no > part of the installation process that says "NO HARD DRIVE". > > Would you mind reporting the actual error message? Your vivid > imagination may make for wonderful bedtime stories for small children, > but it doesn't actually help us any at all. > > > Well, this doesnt make it easy, says hit any key to reboot, I hit > > scroll lock and it starts to reboot) from what I > > can see, It doesnt look like it, I see this for sym: > > > > I honestly cant tell, damm thing scrolls to fast. Doesnt seem like it is > > though. > > > > > > > > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:17:12AM -0700, Bill Woods mail wrote: > > > > OK, I have an Alphastation 200 4/233 that is presently running 4.1-stable > > > > just fine. I figured, I want to play with -current, so I grab the boot > > > > disks from current.freebsd.org and boot em...it says NO HARD DRIVE.... > > > > > > Boot again, and then use the scroll back feature (using the scroll lock > > > key and up arrow; or scroll bar on your xterm if serial console). Look > > > to see if the `sym' driver attached or not. > > > > > > -- > > > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > > Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message