Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 02:19:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Tom Jackson <toj@silverback.gorilla.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... Message-ID: <199810040919.CAA03330@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:25:45 PDT." <199810040725.AAA02590@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > Try other slices, eg: 'ls disk1s1a:'. It's not unlikely that there's a > > > miscalculation in the slice numbering somewhere. > > > > I first wanted to try my Thinkpad with a dangerously dedicated ide and the > > src and obj nfs mounted from the server (the one that doesn't work). The > > Thinkpad works fine. > > > > The server, asus p2l97-ds w/ 1005 bios, does indeed have another partition > > before FBSD. 1 is w95, 2 is FBSD boot, and 3 is FBSD. I tried ls'ing every- > > thing I could think of and nothing works. I'll include the fdisk and disklabel. > > > > Any suggestion on what to try? > > Hang back and watch for some more commits - I appear to have made some > mistakes in the 'guess what the root device is' code. On a box I just > booted with quite old bootblocks, I get the "Can't work out which disk > we are booting from" message, and the default device is 'disk-1a'. Ok. I've committed a few fixes now. I'm still seeing an odd case here where the information from the previous bootstrap isn't being copied in correctly, so the default disk is set wrong at startup, but I need to chase this with Mr Nordier. Let me know how you go. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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