Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:48:44 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with Qlogic SCSI combo card Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000225114710.5196A-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> In-Reply-To: <14518.55904.927335.311841@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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I booted off the FreeBSD 4.0 CD-ROM -- it is true that my system disk has NetBSD/alpha 1.4.1 on it and that my 2nd IDE disk has Linux on it, but I had booted off the SCSI CD-ROM I put on the 2nd channel of the card. Dirk On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > > > I was loaned the mystery card from Dirk- it's got 2 Qlogic 1020 chips and a > > > > 21040-AA (!!) chip and a 21050 bridge. I think he got past the memory mapped > > > > vs. I/O, but couldn't boot. We'll see- I probably won't get to this today. > > > > > > Odd -- where did his boot stop? I'm running 5 or 6 AS600s with these > > > cards & booting off them fine. They are production machines & are > > > running -current from Jan, so something may have changed.. > > > > He said "could not find init"...It may be just plain pilot error. > > > > The hardware is fine. His problem is pilot error -- he has probably > booted from a Tru64 disk (or NetBSD, or OpenBSD, or Linux using BSD > disklabels, etc). This can happen with the new bootstrap glue from > Mike Smith which obtains the location of / from /etc/fstab. > > He needs to fix this by breaking into the boot loader & setting > vfs.root.mountfrom to the appropriate disk. > > Somethine like > > ok set vfs.root.mountfrom=da1 > > is probably what he needs. I'm not terribly confident the > syntax is correct. > > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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