From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 4 20:53:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15348 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15343 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04108; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811050451.UAA04108@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:41:18 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 20:51:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The 164LX cannot find the disks after make installworld and a reboot. > They are simply gone. > > the console monitor simply looks for dka0.2000.0 or some such and never > finds it. The floppy disks seem to still be there. Sounds like the NVRAM may be spooged. What if you try booting an explicit disk (boot dka0)? > For a while, it would boot from the disks, only to hang in the device scan. > Now, the console (SRM?) cannot find the disks. > > Any idea is welcome. I got lots of work accomplished there... Bad, very bad. Board under warranty? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message