Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:30:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-stable won't boot Message-ID: <200005251730.KAA02309@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2000 13:44:57 BST." <20000525134456.D28056@moose.bri.hp.com>
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> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:35:55PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just did a cvsup to RELENG_4 about noon EST today (Wed), built world, > > > installed a new kernel, and rebooted. now, when I boot, I get the > > > following: > > ... > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a > > > no such device 'ad' > > > > Sounds like you left the 'ad' device out of your new kernel config. Bad > > idea. 8) > > For what it's worth, I had similar problems recently as well, although > I was getting ata_master: timeout waiting for command (from memory), This is a totally different problem. > however I did have the ad device, and the problem seemed to be related > to some sort of conflict that appeared only when I had one of the > following also in the kernel : > > options AUTO_EOI_1 > options AUTO_EOI_2 > device pcm > device pcf > > I've not narrowed it down much yet, but suffice it to say that I got > almost the same problem described above, but which automagically fixed > itself once I took out the above 4 lines. Did you take all of them out at once? The AUTO_EOI options are BAD and EVIL and we should _not_ be letting people use them. -- \\ 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-stable" in the body of the message
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