Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:19:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "McKinley, Rob" <RMcKinley@mercantec.com> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: AS200, PC164 Success. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011160918150.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <C0276A99F75AD41188950008C7B989FF088B3B@nt01.merc.local>
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> > Dmesg output below is from the resulting installed system. I need to pick > up a working serial cable this evening to boot it from a console to get the > boot messages when booting off the CDROM/floppies. The CDROM is a Plextor > 12x SCSI. I double checked termination on the scsi chain and all seems well > there. I did note that after a buildworld, when I shut it down a show dev > at the SRM prompt only showed the hard drive, no CDROM, even though I had > the CDROM mounted during the buildworld. My guess at this point is that > during the beginning of sysinstall (and possibly during normal running), the > CDROM device is getting dropped as a valid device (similar to the thread > about the AS1200 getting read errors on the hard drive early on in boot > sequence?). > The SRM is the updated version from the Tru64 5.0 kit, so I could try moving > it back a rev or two. The dmesg you sent shows no errors. I'm still trying to figure out where precisely the CDROM seems to go away. Sigh. > > As an aside, if I leave the Tru64 5 disk on the chain I get the dreaded > "going nowhere without my init" panic. Yes, this still seems to be here. Something is reading the wrong disks's root filesystem. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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