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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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