From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 12:35:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA07034 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 12:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from bclcl1.im.battelle.org (bclcl1.im.battelle.org [131.167.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07027 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 12:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccmailgw.im.battelle.org by BCLCL1 (PMDF V4.3-9 #3705) id <01HZ2OJLL1RKHSJSTK@BCLCL1>; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:33:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from cc:Mail by ccmailgw.im.battelle.org id AA819589002; Thu, 21 Dec 95 15:29:50 EST Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:29:50 -0500 (EST) From: Cyrus W Moler Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD 2.1 To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <9511218195.AA819589002@ccmailgw.im.battelle.org> X-Envelope-to: questions@freebsd.org Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi Stefan, Pleased to make your acquaintance. >But I'm afraid, I don't quite understand your message. >- Does 2.1R fail to complete the boot sequence? I guess I wasn't clear. I have a FreeBSD 2.0R system running. I tried to do a complete reinstall using the new 2.1R I just got on CD. (I'm installing using the "install.bat" file from MS-DOS.) It (2.1R) fails on the CD-ROM driver with the following messages: (ncr0:6:0): "CHINON CD-ROM CDS-535 Q20" type 5 removable SCSI2 cd0(ncr0:6:0): CD-ROM ncr0: SCSI phase error fixup: CCB address mismatch (0xf07cd400 != 0xf07cc948) ncr0:6: ERROR (80:100) (e-aa-0) (0/13) @ (438:1e000000) script cmd = 868b0000 reg: da 10 80 13 47 00 0b 1f 06 0e 01 aa 80 00 0a 00 ncr0: handshake timeout cd0(ncr0:6:0): COMMAND FAILED (6 ff) @f07cd400 can't get the size The install proceeds to "sysinstall" but will not let me use the CD-ROM as media type. It says there is no CD-ROM. >- Do you boot a GENERIC or customized kernel ? This is the install.bat on the CD-ROM, so I guess it would be the GENERIC kernel. Although I did try using the /kernel -c option at boot and disabling all the drivers I don't need, this didn't change the result of the boot. Funny thing, there is no ncr driver listed, I guess that means there are no options for that driver? >- What is the final message printed ? See above I also tried to create a floppy boot disk. This had the same bad result. ---------- I guess the confusing part is that version 2.0 seemed to exhibit the same failure but it was handled by the assertion, now version 2.1 doesn't handle the error. Obviously the ncr driver was changed (I can't say improved), and now it's broke for me. So what is my solution? Can I update everything except the ncr driver, using the Unix file system on the second CD, (The Walnut Creek release contains 2 CD's. One is MS-DOS based and the second is a UFS), and if so how? Any insight you could provide would be highly appreciated. Thanks, and Happy Holidays to you and yours! Cy Moler moler@battelle.org