From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 07:39:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11105 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@root.com) Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27633; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:40:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811191540.HAA27633@root.com> To: "Mark A. Pitman" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "cant mount root" error after install (with a single SCSI HD) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:55:52 MST." <36543178.57DBD7D8@primenet.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:40:35 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> >on an NCR53c810 PCI controller. I have noticed that when the system >> >boots, the kernel does not probe or detect any of the PCI devices. The >> >boot floppy probes the PCI devices fine (I guess that's pretty obvious, >> >since it installed). Anybody know what I can do to fix this? I'm new to >> >> That's a pretty strange problem - the first one I've heard like that. I >> can't think of anything off hand that would cause the installed kernel to >> ignore your PCI bus when the one on the install floppy sees it just fine. As >> a test, can you try to install 3.0? > >Yes, I can download 3.0, but being new to FreeBSD is that a good idea? I had >heard it would be better to stick with the stable 2.2.7 version. If 3.0 is fine >for general home use, then that's great, i'll do it! It will probably be fine for home use, but I'm mainly interested in the data point as a troubleshooting measure. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message