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Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 13:59:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: autoconf.c:setroot() makes bad calculation
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I did. I just did it again to be sure and had the
same results. I wish I had forgotten, boy that'd been easy.

Dan


On Sun, 17 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> did you replace the bootblocks when you went to 2.2.6?
> 
> disklabel -B sd1
> 
> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Dan Janowski wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Any clues?
> > 
> > 2.2.6-RELEASE
> > 
> > autoconf.c:setroot() finds wrong root device in following:
> > 
> >   1. booteasy
> >   2. boot device, second scsi drive
> >   3. second scsi has no slices (raw disklabel)
> >   4. config kernel lists sd1a as root
> >   5. no IDE in the kernel
> >   6. 2 SCSI cards, ahc1 and bt0
> > 
> >   boot loader finds and pulls in kernel from ufs, kernel
> >   inits correctly, at the end it says
> >   "changing root device to wd1s4a"
> > 
> >   Even wierder: boot.config has '-rv' all ignored, I don't
> >   get either -r or -v functions during boot. However, it
> >   announces the flags in the boot.config notice.
> > 
> >   If I type in -r at the boot prompt, kernel finds correct
> >   root and boots normally.
> > 
> >   I can boot the system, but it won't autoboot because of
> >   the combined wrong root calc and ignore of boot.config.
> > 
> >   Any idears?
> > 
> >   Dan
> > 
> > 
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> 

--
danj@3skel.com
Dan Janowski
Triskelion Systems, Inc.
Bronx, NY


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