Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:18:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jak Crow <jakcrow@werewolves.org> To: freebsd-sf@arachna.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm burning... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625151805.4818A-100000@shell3.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980625142125.2181D-100000@mail.gamespot.com>
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I heard that Adaptec has made changes to their more recent hardware that's causing problems under FreeBSD. I don't know if there is any truth to that though. Marc On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ian Kallen wrote: > > I'm kind of burning in hell right now. I'm installing CURRENT onto a > system with a 3940 controller that has the AIC-7895 chip. OK fine. I > found the boot floppy that has the CAM stuff in it at > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ > and did my install thing, copied the CAM aware kernel and chflag'd schg. > Now the system comes up and sees the 3940 busses as ahc0 and ahc1, as I > expected but it can't mount root. It's sees the disks and barfs, > something like this: > da0: 4095Mb (normal looking disk recognition stuff) > error 6: panic: cannot mount root > > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this > installation? > > -Ian (installs are usually soooo easy!) Kallen > > -- > Lisa: Sorry Dad, I know you mean well. [kisses him] > Homer: Thanks for knowing I mean well. > -- ``Moaning Lisa'' > > > ........... http://www.arachna.com/freebsd/freebsd-sf.html ............... > --- to unsubscribe "unsubscribe freebsd-sf" to majordomo@arachna.com ---- > Bender bender (at) werewolves (dot) org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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