Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:21:34 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lucent.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RELEASE CD from ISO Message-ID: <200011282221.RAA00684@pechter.ho.lucent.com> In-Reply-To: <20001128100115.A36503@dragon.nuxi.com> "from David O'Brien at Nov 28, 2000 10:01:15 am"
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David O'Brien said:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:27:14PM -0500, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > > Not w/o you telling the command you used and the error(s) produced...
> >
> > Well... vold chokes on it and it times out on a direct mount of
> > /cdrom -- just kind of hangs there on Solaris 8 and times out.
>
> You have yet to give the direct command you used -- so lets cut to the
> chase (why didn't you give the command as asked??). You do know you have
> to specify a FS type of "hsfs" right?
Yup... I know about hsfs... the trick is as follows:
Solaris 2.8 (patched to the Nov 2000 Recommended set pops up a format
floppy dialog on insertion of the cdrom.
# mount /cdrom2
mount: /dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2 is already mounted, /cdrom2 is busy,
or allowable number of mount points exceeded
OK -- this is vold running... time to stop it...
# sh -x /etc/init.d/vol* stop
+ /usr/bin/pkill -x -u 0 vold
+ exit 0
Insert FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE rom from ISO on ftp.freebsd.org
# mount /cdrom2
mount: /dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2 no such device
Insert NetBSD 1.4.1 cdrom (burned locally as well...)
# mount /cdrom2
# ls -l /cdrom2
total 648
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Aug 24 1999 alpha
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Aug 24 1999 amiga
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Aug 24 1999 arm32
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Aug 24 1999 atari
[ listing cut ]
# grep cdrom2 /etc/vfstab
/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0s2 /cdrom2 hsfs 2 no ro
Looks like we tickled some Sun bug with cdrom recognition of the thing.
Why else is it trying to run a dos format from vold... It appears
to get confused with the bootable rom.
BTW -- Solaris 2.6 on Sparc works ok. Solaris 8 on Sparc works ok.
Seems like a Solaris x86 problem. Or a problem with the system hardware
(both x86 boxes are FIC VA503+ K6-2/450's -- with the same NCR 815 SCSI
cards).
(However one machine shows the same problem with an IDE CDROM as well as
the scsi).
It appears Sun's got a free support offer right now... I think I'll
give them a try on this one.
> For a limited time only Sun is offering our Solaris 8
> Per Incident Phone and E-mail Support at no charge. Call now and take
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>
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> on Intel and SPARC expertise. This promotion will expire on January 26,
> 2001.
--Bill
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