Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 13:59:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: autoconf.c:setroot() makes bad calculation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980517135844.295A-100000@fnur.3skel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980517104214.17761G-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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I did. I just did it again to be sure and had the same results. I wish I had forgotten, boy that'd been easy. Dan On Sun, 17 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > did you replace the bootblocks when you went to 2.2.6? > > disklabel -B sd1 > > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: > > > > > Any clues? > > > > 2.2.6-RELEASE > > > > autoconf.c:setroot() finds wrong root device in following: > > > > 1. booteasy > > 2. boot device, second scsi drive > > 3. second scsi has no slices (raw disklabel) > > 4. config kernel lists sd1a as root > > 5. no IDE in the kernel > > 6. 2 SCSI cards, ahc1 and bt0 > > > > boot loader finds and pulls in kernel from ufs, kernel > > inits correctly, at the end it says > > "changing root device to wd1s4a" > > > > Even wierder: boot.config has '-rv' all ignored, I don't > > get either -r or -v functions during boot. However, it > > announces the flags in the boot.config notice. > > > > If I type in -r at the boot prompt, kernel finds correct > > root and boots normally. > > > > I can boot the system, but it won't autoboot because of > > the combined wrong root calc and ignore of boot.config. > > > > Any idears? > > > > Dan > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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