Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:06:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.5 w/DPT support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971023180057.16558A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199710232057.AA01364@world.std.com>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > >> >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. The dangerous dedicated doesn't buy you anything, other than making an partition table incompatible with everything. I never use it, even though all the FreeBSD systems I work with are dedicated too. Perhaps a geometry problem. Is / within the first 1024 cylinders? Or, a problem with your bootblocks on the hard drive. What type of bootblocks did you install? > 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) What version of dpt driver? > 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. I dunno. Again, it only took me 5 minutes to get things are working. > Many thanks, > -kc > > Tom
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