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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sf@arachna.com
Subject: Re: I'm burning...
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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?

The boot disk probably moved after the disk probes; try changing the
FreeBSD boot disk to SCSI ID 0.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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