Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:31:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Alex N. Zhuravlev" <alx@scn.ru> Cc: abial@nask.pl, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP wanted for CAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612023046.11999N-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806100102.JAA18004@keep.scn.ru>
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Alex N. Zhuravlev wrote: > Hi ! > I've got new 440BX Asus motherboard with Adaptec 7890 on it. > I know now that only new CAM code can support it. > I've got boot floppy with CAM, taking your advice. > Then I boot up system - Adaptec 7890/91 was found and after all others da0 was also > found. > So I installed the 2.2.6-stable SA-05-12 and everything seemed to be fine ... > After installation I got in Fixit --> Fixit Floppy and iserted floppy made from > kernel.flp and remove kernel.CAM.gz to root partition and ungziped it. > After all I rebooted .... > Adaptec 7890/91 was found again. After probing all other devices it began to mount / > . But da0 was not found up to this time ... So it said "panic cannot mount / (root > 2). The system will reboot. Syncing discs .... " > And only after that it found da0 with all nessesary atribbutes. > But that's too late so after 15 sec it rebooted. Also I can "press any key" and it > will "wait for another touch-down" to reboot. > I retype from screen all the information, sorry for being not exact in details. > I really need to have an ability to boot the system from SCSI disk. > Any suggestion what to do ??? > Thanks, Alex N. Zhuravlev Find a fixit floppy. You need to run /dev/MAKEDEV da0 to build the disk devices. Remember that CAM uses da* instead of sd*. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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