Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:41:31 -0700 (MST) From: joey miller <omi@remorse.org> To: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm burning... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625203503.1703D-100000@pinnacle.localnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980625144258.2181E-100000@mail.gamespot.com>
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do a "disklabel -e /dev/da0", then make sure the "type: " line says "SCSI", not ESDI, or uknown, etc.. i had this same problem before, and this corrected it joey On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ian Kallen wrote: > > I'm kind of burning in hell right now. I'm installing CURRENT onto a > system with a 3940 controller that has the AIC-7895 chip. OK fine. I > found the boot floppy that has the CAM stuff in it at > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ > and did my install thing, copied the CAM aware kernel and chflag'd schg. > Now the system comes up and sees the 3940 busses as ahc0 and ahc1, as I > expected but it can't mount root. It's sees the disks and barfs, > something like this: > da0: 4095Mb (normal looking disk recognition stuff) > error 6: panic: cannot mount root > > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this > installation? > > -Ian (installs are usually soooo easy!) Kallen > > -- > I have an answering machine in my car. It says "I'm home now. But leave a > message and I'll call when I'm out." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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