Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:38:06 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: ufkartfm@pacific.net (curtis) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <199812102138.WAA02376@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <366EDEC0.81429EB2@pacific.net> from curtis at "Dec 9, 98 08:34:08 pm"
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As curtis wrote... > Did you have the disk problem before you began to 'build world'? Nope. > How does your 2nd scsi 'show' during the SRM "power-up script"? They look OK, but also see my earlier mail about the spinup issue. > rootcd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 <---------8 > cd0: <DEC RRD45 (C) DEC 1645> Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device > cd0: 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) > cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, > fs is 2880 (da1:ncr0:0:1:0): . CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <---------8 > (da1:ncr0:0:1:0): NOT READY asc:4,2 > > On the ones I marked <---------8, was this because of cut and paste? > Because it removes the device entry, it does not see da1 ; however, as > Kenneth D. Merry mentioned "it looks like da0 is working fine..". The spinup thingie it seems. > The first thing I would check (if the drive is not recognized under SRM) > is the scsi cable and make sure it is plugged in all the way. Cables were OK, as was SRM. > What do you have on da0 and do you mount it as /dev/sd0a or /dev/da0a? ...eh.... Digital Unix ;-) > > About the NetBSD remark: I first installed Freebsd/axp when there was > > not yet a working Freebsd boot floppy out there. So, the harddisk still > > has the NetBSD boot bits on it. > > (smile) This is how I started too and the reason I mentioned it. Here is > a snip from one of my old posts. > > > NetBSD boot floppies and setting up FreeBSD. - I feel there should be > > a note in the .org/alpha section that explains this method is no longer > > used. I have seen posts to the list where folks (including me) had set > > up their systems this way & had problems with later FreeBSD installs. Hear hear ;-) > I experienced similar problems (as yours) when I moved everything to > 3.0. > Previous to this I was under 2.2.6, moved to 2.2.7, and had used the > NetBSD install method. > > Under 3.0, and when I got a working kern.flp & mfsroot.gz that took me > to a working /stand/sysintall Main Menu, I ran into similar problems. > Here is what Mike Smith told me: > > > You are trying to run a mismatched sh/kernel pair; one is a FreeBSD > > binary, one is a NetBSD binary. Boot from the NetBSD install floppy > > again and make sure that you have both from the same source. > > Which was a big clue. The ONLY way (for me) to get around this was to > re-format my drive. I figured this out after I did a second NetBSD > install and it put me back to the same place. A re-format (for me) was > the only way it would accept a 'clean' FreeBSD install and disk problems > have gone away. Sysinstall is currently doing it's thing so lets see what happens. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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