Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:32:21 +0000 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Marks, Maurice" <Maurice.Marks@compaq.com>, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 CD booting - cant find init on XP1000 Message-ID: <20000524193221.C767@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <14636.984.841079.303829@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:33:16PM -0400 References: <9996FB0C6AB3D111B9FB0000F81E38A20940A9F1@lkgexc1.tay.dec.com> <14636.984.841079.303829@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:33:16PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Would this not be a thing to put in the 4.0-ERRATA on the WWW? If I knew how to do that... Wilko > > Marks, Maurice writes: > > Disconnecting the Tru64 disk solved the problem! Amazing but true. I wish I > > knew why... > > thanks > > /maurice > > Me too! I don't really understand what's happening. Perhaps the > auther of the new, simplified rootdev selection code might have some > insight. Mike? > > Cheers, > > Drew > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:25 AM > > To: Marks, Maurice > > Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: 4.0 CD booting - cant find init on XP1000 > > > > > > > > Marks, Maurice writes: > > > I'm having trouble booting the 4.0 CD on an XP1000. The same CD boots > > fine > > > and installed FreeBSD on a Miata and a DS10. I'm seeing the "cant find > > init" > > > failure that Dirk Kleinhesselink reported in March on a PC164. The XP1000 > > > has 512MB of memory, 4 SCSI devices on the internal controller. Toshiba > > IDE > > > CDROM. Everything looks normal in the boot process until the kernel tries > > to > > > mount root on /dev/md0c, finds that md0 has invalid partition information > > > (no magic number) and later finds that it cant locate init. > > > > > > Any ideas appreciated > > > > > > > This is just a guess: Does one of the disk drives contain an > > installation of Tru64? If so, can you make that drive disappear (pull > > the power or the scsi cable) while you're booting? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Drew > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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