From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 5:23:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cits-darla.robins.af.mil (cits-darla.robins.af.mil [137.244.215.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184271522E for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 05:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Andrew.Lofthouse@robins.af.mil) Received: from cits-darla.robins.af.mil (root@localhost) by cits-darla.robins.af.mil with ESMTP id IAA07010 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wr-ds2-s.robins.af.mil (wr-ds2-s.robins.af.mil [137.244.190.204]) by cits-darla.robins.af.mil with ESMTP id IAA07006 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wr-ds2-s.robins.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:19:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3F69A3D5863ED211B31F0000F809353502B57655@FSUHHZ33> From: Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2-RELEASE boot probe doesn't find wdc0 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:19:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just tried installing 3.2-RELEASE on my computer using boot floppies and installing from a DOS partition. When booting the kernel on the boot floppy, the hardware probe doesn't find my primary controller (wdc0), and, as a consequence, doesn't find my hard drives, either. I've looked at the IRQ and the port addresses; they shouldn't be a problem (I've had 2.2.8-RELEASE running on the same machine without problems; the default IRQ and port for wdc0 are the same for both versions). I've got no device conflicts either. Could it be a problem with the new bootstrap procedure? or maybe the parallel port bus? Originally, I had my hard drives' geometry set by the user in the BIOS. I then changed it to autodetect the geometry. I tried booting the BSD boot floppy again, and it found wdc0 on the probe. I set up BSD as I normally do, then when I rebooted, the probe didn't find wdc0! (and, hence, the kernel panicked because it couldn't find my root partition). I tried using the install boot floppy again and ran into the same problem (couldn't find wdc0). Here's how my machine is set up: Intel 430 TX chipset w/ Pentium 200 MMX CPU; two hard drives (both on primary controller); one CD-ROM drive as master on secondary controller. I have multiple operating systems installed (NT, Win95, Linux, BSD, DOS); I had no problems running 2.2.8 with this configuration. I tried upgrading from 2.2.8 with 3.2 binaries, but ran into the same problems (couldn't mount root because of controller problems.) Any ideas please? Thanks, Andrew J. Lofthouse, 2LT, USAF Technology Applications Engineer COM (912) 926-6617 DSN 468-6617 FAX (912) 926-7638 Andrew.Lofthouse@robins.af.mil WR-ALC/TIECT 420 Second St. Suite 100 Robins AFB, GA 31098-1640 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message