From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Feb 26 13:54:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles517.castles.com [208.214.165.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAA937B541; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:54:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00667; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:54:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002262154.NAA00667@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Mike Smith , Dirk Kleinhesselink , mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with Qlogic SCSI combo card In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:21:35 EST." <14518.60317.343300.244411@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:54:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > OK. Then it looks like the install kernel is broken & will latch onto > > > any random BSD partition it finds. I'm not familiar with the install > > > process, so I'll bow out now.. > > > > This certainly isn't the normal case; I used the 4.0 RC2 CDROM to > > reinstall our DS20 the other day. > > Hmm.. I'm grasping at straws here..: > > Does the alpha install from a single kernel with the root device > complied in, or does it load the contents of md0 from the boot loader, > or does it mount the cdrom for its root..? The CDROM install kernel has the md0 image compiled-in. > I'm wondering if my instructions for him to break into the boot loader > to set isp_mem_map=0xff might have prevented the script from loading > the contents of md0, thus causing the vfs_conf code to go looking > around for a filesystem & finding his netbsd fs? It wouldn't do that anyway; in the floppy case everything is loaded before you get a chance to break to the command prompt. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message