From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 04:23:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA14594 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:23:36 -0700 Received: from jaguar.cris.com (jaguar.cris.com [199.3.123.33]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA14588 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:23:35 -0700 Received: (from bsd@localhost) by jaguar.cris.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA01490; Wed, 24 Aug 1994 00:47:31 GMT From: BSD Mailing List Message-Id: <199408240047.AAA01490@jaguar.cris.com> Subject: NCR-PCI config problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 00:47:30 +0000 () Cc: rbeer@jaguar.cris.com (Rich Beerman) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1415 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I've upgraded my Freebsd setup from a 486 to P90 today, and have been having a hard time getting the -stable kernel configured and working properly with my machine (although the original 2.0.5R kernel is working fine): My problem is that I am using the motherboard PCI NCR scsi controller. On the -stable kernel that I built, on boot-up, I get: probing for devices on the pci0 bus: configuration mode 1 allows 32 devices changing root device to sd0a panic: cannot mount root However, the prebuilt 2.0.5R kernel probes fine and finds chip0/ncr0. It appears the kernel I build is not probing or can't find the devices on my pci bus. Here's the appropriate fields from my disfunctional config file: ... controller ncr0 ... # as found in LINT, these are at the very bottom of the config # file controller pci0 device ncr0 I am sure I have it configured wrong, but haven't had any luck w/ hacking with the config file and rebuilding the kernel - I also have questions and confusions about the kernel reconfiguration process, for one, I do not know why in the GENERIC config file, "controller ncr0" is found, but not in the LINT file, and why LINT has "controller pci0" and "device ncr0", but these lines aren't found in GENERIC. If anyone could set me straight, point out my error and/or send me a working config file that should work in my hardware paradigm, I'd be greatly appreciative! Thanks, Rich