Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:45:58 -0700 From: "Dave Truesdell" <davet@geoplex.com> To: "David E. Tweten" <tweten@frihet.com>, tweten@nas.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEC 6030X, FreeBSD 2.2.2, and the CDROM Message-ID: <5973.867091558@nomad.geoplex.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:30:30 PDT." <199706212130.OAA08118@ns.frihet.com>
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Hi Dave,
Is the switch on the CDROM drive (on the back, above the connecter) set to=
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"Master" or "Slave"? The one on mine is set to "Slave" and I have had no =
problems.
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Subject: NEC 6030X, FreeBSD 2.2.2, and the CDROM
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I have a small problem after a generally uneventful FreeBSD 2.2.2 installation
on my NEC 6030X. The CD arrived in the mail yesterday, so last night, the
project began.
NEC's Versa series, one of which is the 6030X, has a little drawer in the
front of the laptop, into which you can insert a floppy drive or a CD drive or
a carriage to hold a second hard disk (the internal one is modular and easily
removable), or a second battery. With the CD drawer installed, the FreeBSD
2.2.2 install disk booted perfectly. Installation onto my dedicated (ie, no
fdisk table) FreeBSD disk went very smoothly. I bought a second hard disk to
avoid NEC's unenlightened attitudes toward Windows95 sharing space with
another OS (as documented previously on these lists). Besides, I think I can
find a way productively to use 1.4 gig just for FreeBSD and XFree86.
So why do I write? A possible reason the CD booted so cooperatively is it
seems installation of the CD causes the hard disk to become /dev/wd1, while
the CD acts as /dev/wd0. That gives me two choices. I always leave the CD
drawer in -- and always boot from the CD, or I can boot the first time into
single user mode, change /etc/fstab to refer to /dev/wd0 instead of /dev/wd1
and never install the CD drawer again under FreeBSD. Other strategies produce
a panic, immediately after the kernel gets through probing devices. The cause
is inability to mount the root partition (because /etc/fstab points to the
"wrong" device).
For the moment, I haven't been able to come up with a good idea of how best to
detect the CD drawer in /etc/rc before it gets to "swapon -a." If I could,
that would let me use one version of /etc/fstab with the CD drawer and another
without. Changing drawers will always require a reboot; a small label on the
bottom of the machine says that power must be off to change "Versa Bay"
devices.
Anybody have any good ideas?
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T.T.F.N.,
Dave Truesdell
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