Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:33:34 -0600 From: "Brian McCloskey" <bmccloskey@leader-group.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 7895 On-Board SCSI Controller Message-ID: <353E37FD.8C081D4D@leader-group.com> References: <199804201931.NAA17845@narnia.plutotech.com> <353CD8D2.F29D2111@leader-group.com> <19980421195322.01991@follo.net>
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Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:35:14AM -0600, Brian McCloskey wrote: > > I don't know if I have done something wrong or not, and I will try > > the -a option at the boot prompt when I try it again, but I > > installed FreeBSD 3.0, and used the fixit floppy with the CAM files > > to install the new kernel. Then when I reboot, the system starts to > > come up, and configures all of the devices and then at the end > > brings up a message like "Reboot of the system in 15 seconds. Press > > any key to abort reboot". I can't remember the exact message, but > > along those lines. > > That's the _end_ of a panic message, where you're told why it > panic()s. Probably a case of "can't mount root", but you'd be > interested in looking at where it tries to mount root from (and which > devices are up - possibly not all, even if it looks like "a lot of > them"). > > Eivind. > That's very interesting, because when I was installing FreeBSD, it would newfs my /var and /usr partitions, but not my root. So then it would come back saying that it was unable to put files in /etc. I had to boot from the fixit floppy and newfs it manualy, and then create the /etc/directory before it would ever put anything on the system. Now that you are mentioning a possible wrong root, I will attempt to force a boot from the correct partition. Thanks, Brian -- _________________________________________________ Brian McCloskey | Leader Group Consultant | 5200 DTC Parkway ph: 303-773-9700 | Suite 500 fax: 303-773-9610 | Englewood, CO 80111 ____________________________|____________________ http://www.leader-group.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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