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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:13:03 -0600
From:      "McKinley, Rob" <RMcKinley@mercantec.com>
To:        "'mjacob@feral.com'" <mjacob@feral.com>, "McKinley, Rob" <RMcKinley@mercantec.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: AS200, PC164 Success.
Message-ID:  <C0276A99F75AD41188950008C7B989FF088B42@nt01.merc.local>

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Yeah, without a serial connection I couldn't get the boot messages to show
when it's broken (unless anyone knows of a way to get dmesg output from the
emergency shell available from sysinstall).  I didn't have time to get it
last night either, so I'll try again tonight.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:mjacob@feral.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: McKinley, Rob
> Cc: 'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'
> Subject: RE: AS200, PC164 Success.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 


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