From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 14:26:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA04038 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:26:06 -0700 Received: from super.super.org (super.super.org [192.31.192.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA04030 ; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:26:00 -0700 Received: from gotham.super.org (gotham-e [192.239.79.2]) by super.super.org (8.6.11/8.6.10.1) with ESMTP id RAA23713; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:25:57 -0400 Received: from hume.super.org (hume.super.org [192.239.79.11]) by gotham.super.org (8.6.11/8.6.10.1) with SMTP id RAA18260; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:25:57 -0400 Received: by hume.super.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09992; Thu, 27 Apr 95 17:25:50 EDT Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:25:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "William A. Arbaugh" To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, tom@batc.allied.com Subject: Re: 0412 SNAP install hangs after 'changing root device ...' In-Reply-To: <199504272059.NAA17732@ref.tfs.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > It looks as if we have a problem with the new slice code that went > out in the last SNAP. > > My guess is that certain disklabel/BIOS-data/MBR combinations > are interpretted differently than before, leading to > an inability to read the root partition... > Steve Kargl provided the solution (at least for me- I haven't heard from tom@batc.allied.com yet). The problem seems to be with the 3c509 card and some of the device probing. I rebooted (with -c) and disabled ep0, and everything the system boots fine. (I should have thought of that! Thanks Steve!). The question now is WHAT exactly is causing this problem. I'm going to spend some time to try and narrow down the probe conflict. I'll post if I know more. bill ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Arbaugh "Waste of time is the most waarbau@super.org extravagant of all expenses" waa@dsl.cis.upenn.edu -Theophrastus ----------------------------------------------------------------