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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:18:03 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot on SCSI gets stuck at F1 Freebsd 
Message-ID:  <200004190018.RAA00843@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:01:34 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004181926360.14209-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org> 

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You probably have the "extended translation for disks > 1GB" option in 
the Adaptec BIOS turned off.  FreeBSD requires this to be on.

> I'm having trouble booting from a SCSI disk into FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE and
> 4.0-STABLE.
> 
> The boot gets stuck at "F1 Freebsd" and then doesn't do anything.
> 
> I've been booting by hand from a 3.3-RELEASE CDROM typing
> 
> 0:da(0,a)/kernel at the cdrom's boot prompt
> 
> and this works fine.
> 
> With linux I had to modify lilo.conf to include the "linear" option (which
> from the man page generates linear sector address rather than
> sector/head/cylinder addresses).
> 
> man loader/boot hasn't helped (me), and I'm not entirely sure which part
> of the boot process is failing, nor how to remedy the problem.
> 
> The SCSI adaptor is a Adaptec 2940UW.  dmesg says (booting from the
> cdrom):
> 
> sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> sa0: <SONY SDT-5200 3.30> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> sa0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8)
> Mounting root from ufs:da0s1a
> cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> cd0: <SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S 1.2d> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd0: 4.901MB/s transfers (4.901MHz, offset 15)
> cd0: cd present [329606 x 2048 byte records]
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM DDRS-34560D DC1B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 4357MB (8925000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 4357C)
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> Simon
> -- 
> Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN    Tel: +34-91-408 4878    email: sjmudd@pobox.com
> 
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