From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 5 12:34:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26679 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26668 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:34:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA24891; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:33:21 GMT Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:33:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Doug Rabson, On 05-Nov-98 you wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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... > > > > When I was cross developing from NetBSD to FreeBSD on the 164LX, I had > > to > > power-cycle the thing when switching operating systems before the ncr > > driver in NetBSD would work right. Try power-cycling it (leave it off > > for > > a few seconds etc.). > > Thanx Doug. But; > > * There was no O/S switching going on > * I left it off overnight > * I tried to move the board from slot to slot, or even to put the Qlogic > board from the other machine in. Same result. > > BTW, the disk controller is a DEC creation that has the NCR (by some other > name) and a Tulip Ethernet on the same card. > > Somehow do not feel as if the controller is at fault, but something else. > Shall I try to move the controller and its disks to the working machine? I would try moving just the disks to a working machine and then if that works, test the controller in another machine. > > Is there a documented way to boot the box over the net with ALL filesystems > over NFS? This isn't supported yet. Netbooting just loads the kernel at the moment. I need to write some code to wire up the NFS root mount. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message