From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jun 23 11:48:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21706 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ttfn.com ([38.234.74.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA21664; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.geoplex.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ttfn.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA05976; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:46:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: "Dave Truesdell" To: "David E. Tweten" , tweten@nas.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: davet@geoplex.com Subject: Re: NEC 6030X, FreeBSD 2.2.2, and the CDROM In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:30:30 PDT." <199706212130.OAA08118@ns.frihet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa0" Content-ID: <5970.867091557.0@nomad.geoplex.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:45:58 -0700 Message-ID: <5973.867091558@nomad.geoplex.com> Sender: owner-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <5970.867091557.1@nomad.geoplex.com> Content-MD5: QlMqUnTFXZnaDj8ymiEdag== Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Dave, Is the switch on the CDROM drive (on the back, above the connecter) set to= = "Master" or "Slave"? The one on mine is set to "Slave" and I have had no = problems. ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from gw.ttfn.com (ttfn.com [204.182.16.254]) by rgate.metricom.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA13836 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.ttfn.com (pooh.ttfn.com [192.168.0.34]) by gw.ttfn.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA16827 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 17:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from davet@localhost) by pooh.ttfn.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id QAA11922 for davet@ricochet.net; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.ttfn.com (gw.ttfn.com [192.168.0.33]) by pooh.ttfn.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA11917 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smyrno.sol.net (smyrno.sol.net [206.55.64.117]) by gw.ttfn.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA16714 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 15:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by smyrno.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA05994; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 17:16:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA20433; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20411 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.frihet.com (root@frihet.bayarea.net [205.219.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20381; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.frihet.com (tweten@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.frihet.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA08118; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: davet@pooh.ttfn.com Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <199706212303.QAA11922@pooh.ttfn.com> Resent-To: davet@ricochet.net Message-Id: <199706212130.OAA08118@ns.frihet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 Reply-To: "David E. Tweten" To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NEC 6030X, FreeBSD 2.2.2, and the CDROM Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:30:30 -0700 From: "David E. Tweten" Prev-Sender: owner-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: 412220a28c1fe1718a4f63bdd879bf2d X-Filter: mailagent [version 3.0 PL53] for davet@ttfn.com I have a small problem after a generally uneventful FreeBSD 2.2.2 installation on my NEC 6030X. The CD arrived in the mail yesterday, so last night, the project began. NEC's Versa series, one of which is the 6030X, has a little drawer in the front of the laptop, into which you can insert a floppy drive or a CD drive or a carriage to hold a second hard disk (the internal one is modular and easily removable), or a second battery. With the CD drawer installed, the FreeBSD 2.2.2 install disk booted perfectly. Installation onto my dedicated (ie, no fdisk table) FreeBSD disk went very smoothly. I bought a second hard disk to avoid NEC's unenlightened attitudes toward Windows95 sharing space with another OS (as documented previously on these lists). Besides, I think I can find a way productively to use 1.4 gig just for FreeBSD and XFree86. So why do I write? A possible reason the CD booted so cooperatively is it seems installation of the CD causes the hard disk to become /dev/wd1, while the CD acts as /dev/wd0. That gives me two choices. I always leave the CD drawer in -- and always boot from the CD, or I can boot the first time into single user mode, change /etc/fstab to refer to /dev/wd0 instead of /dev/wd1 and never install the CD drawer again under FreeBSD. Other strategies produce a panic, immediately after the kernel gets through probing devices. The cause is inability to mount the root partition (because /etc/fstab points to the "wrong" device). For the moment, I haven't been able to come up with a good idea of how best to detect the CD drawer in /etc/rc before it gets to "swapon -a." If I could, that would let me use one version of /etc/fstab with the CD drawer and another without. Changing drawers will always require a reboot; a small label on the bottom of the machine says that power must be off to change "Versa Bay" devices. Anybody have any good ideas? -- David E. Tweten | 2047-bit PGP fingerprint: | tweten@frihet.com 12141 Atrium Drive | E9 59 E7 5C 6B 88 B8 90 | tweten@and.com Saratoga, CA 95070-3162 | 65 30 2A A4 A0 BC 49 AE | (408) 446-4131 Those who make good products sell products; those who don't, sell solutions. ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <5970.867091557.3@nomad.geoplex.com> Content-MD5: iLZ2WltyIsLHPY+3HL+eTg== Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -- = T.T.F.N., Dave Truesdell ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0--