From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 18 17:11:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C5C37BB7E for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00843; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004190018.RAA00843@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Simon J Mudd Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot on SCSI gets stuck at F1 Freebsd In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:01:34 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:18:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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: 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: 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