From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 9:19:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C92537B4CF for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10409; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:19:50 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:19:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "McKinley, Rob" Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: AS200, PC164 Success. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Dmesg output below is from the resulting installed system. I need to pick > up a working serial cable this evening to boot it from a console to get the > boot messages when booting off the CDROM/floppies. The CDROM is a Plextor > 12x SCSI. I double checked termination on the scsi chain and all seems well > there. I did note that after a buildworld, when I shut it down a show dev > at the SRM prompt only showed the hard drive, no CDROM, even though I had > the CDROM mounted during the buildworld. My guess at this point is that > during the beginning of sysinstall (and possibly during normal running), the > CDROM device is getting dropped as a valid device (similar to the thread > about the AS1200 getting read errors on the hard drive early on in boot > sequence?). > The SRM is the updated version from the Tru64 5.0 kit, so I could try moving > it back a rev or two. The dmesg you sent shows no errors. I'm still trying to figure out where precisely the CDROM seems to go away. Sigh. > > As an aside, if I leave the Tru64 5 disk on the chain I get the dreaded > "going nowhere without my init" panic. Yes, this still seems to be here. Something is reading the wrong disks's root filesystem. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message