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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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