From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 15:20:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09616 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell3.ba.best.com (jakcrow@shell3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09477 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakcrow@werewolves.org) Received: from localhost (jakcrow@localhost) by shell3.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id PAA05240; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:18:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell3.ba.best.com: jakcrow owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:18:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jak Crow X-Sender: jakcrow@shell3.ba.best.com To: freebsd-sf@arachna.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm burning... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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