Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:57:35 -0400 From: kwc@world.std.com (Kenneth W Cochran) To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5 w/DPT support Message-ID: <199710232057.AA01364@world.std.com>
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>From tom@sdf.com Wed Oct 22 19:19:17 1997 >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:19:17 -0700 (PDT) >From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> > >> >On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: >> >> (copy of msg in freebsd-questions...) >> >> I've done a FTP install of 2.2.2-RELEASE (2.2.5 soon) >> >> on a machine with a DPT SCSI HBA using the boot.flp >> >> from ftp.i-connect.net/crash. Post-install reboot fails >> >> ("Read error"). Looks like the kernel with the dpt0 driver >> >> did *not* copy over. I have/can get the system up with >> >> a boot & subsequent fixit floppy (the fixit from 2.2.5-RELEASE) >> >> but how can I get that DPT-enabled kernel (containig the dpt0 >> >> driver) onto the root of the boot hd? If I can get someething >> >> there that will allow me to boot without a floppy, then I can >> >> make & install a customized kernel. Please rsvp via e-mail; >> >> my news server is down. I'll summarize to relevant newsgroups >> >> if desired. >> >> >After installing, simply boot and use the fixit disk, and copy the >> >kenerl.GENERIC from ftp.i-connect.net to /kernel, and boot up. At this >> >point, you should build a new kernel from scratch using the 2.2.5 >> >source, and apply the dpt patch. >> >> *That's* the problem; I can get a fixit up & running but can't get >> tne dpt-enabled kernel to where it needs to be. Ftp won't work (so >> far) from fixit mode either... As per suggestion, mount sd0a on /mnt, ifconfig, route add default... >Tom Done. & ftp worked (yaaay!) (although I had to use the numeric ip-address, since dns wasn't up... no problem...) Could runnig in "dangerously dedicated" mode have anything to do with this? For this machine, I have no need to share w/other OSes. Update... I'm booting by starting with the floppy & specifying 0:sd(0,a)kernel.DPT at the prompt & that gets the system to boot off the hd but I'm getting error messages from dpt0 of the following form: dpt0 ERROR: Stale 7001 (Write (10) [6.1.18]) on c0b0t0u0 (199739226) gets another chance(2/5) (not quite the message, but it's scrolling & similar) Also I can't exit the shell or shutdown, so I have to hard-reset, fsck and hope for the best... I did a minimal install (just so I could get *something* up) & thus far /stand/sysinstall won't run (so I can get, among other things, kernel sources & dpt-related patches). I'm in the 2.2.5 flavor of things... (except for this new boot, which is 3.0-ish) Am I going to have to hose this project & use Linux instead? While BSDI works just fine w/DPT I don't have the option of installing it in this case... More developments on my "get 2.2.5 running w/DPT..." I've done a(nother) complete reinstall, this time of 2.2.5; took about all day 'cos I got kernel sources, too. ftp.i-connect.net/crash has no kernel.GENERIC. There is, however, a kernel.dpt. I got it. Still get "Read error" if I try to boot from hd, but I can use the floppy to "force" the boot. No boot: prompt, no "missing operating system." (Error msgs once up, though--strange--fixit floppy works fine.) Looks like I need to do a "disklabel." No idea, though (yet), what to spec on it. Previous comments re: Linux still stand; I *know* that'll work. Would rather use FreeBSD, though. Many thanks, -kc
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