From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 20:42:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.actrix.gen.nz (mail2.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59C5153AA for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from actrix.gen.nz (www@lemuria.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.20]) by mail.actrix.gen.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA23646 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:42:19 +1200 (NZST) From: "Dan Langille" Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:42:23 nzst Subject: 3.1 chicken-and-egg kernel situation X-Mailer: DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 2.1t, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <37671d1f.5cd6.0@actrix.gen.nz> X-User-Info: 202.37.52.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a box (fred) which on which 3.* would not install because the PCI SCSI controller was not recognized. 2.2.8 installs without a problem. 3.* doesn't see the PCI controller. I have been provided with a patch which fixes this situation and allows 3.1 to install. I created a custom kernel with this patch and copied it to the install floppies. This allowed me to install 3.1-Release. However, after rebooting, I get a "cannot mount root" error (sorry, the exact message is at home). I suspect this error occurs because the kernel installed doesn't have this custom patch. Does anyone concur? My proposed solution is to copy the patched kernel [described in the first paragraph] used on the install floppies to the root directory. But how to do that? I assume I can do that using a fixit floppy and copy from another floppy to fred. Either that or just use ftp to get the kernel from my ftp server. To compond the problem, the only floppy drive which works is in fred. So I've installed 2.2.8 on fred and I'm going to create some 3.1 fixit disks and use them after installing 3.1. FWIW: neither 3.* nor current sees the the PCI bus on my box. I'll supply details of the patch if anyone is interested (I'd do that now, but it's at home). cheers. - Dan Langille To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message