From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 25 20:42:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26101 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.inficad.com (root@mail.inficad.com [207.19.74.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26082 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from omi@remorse.org) Received: from pinnacle.localnet (omi@alpine.remorse.org [208.220.148.215]) by mail.inficad.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA03778; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:30:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:41:31 -0700 (MST) From: joey miller X-Sender: omi@pinnacle.localnet To: Ian Kallen cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm burning... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG do a "disklabel -e /dev/da0", then make sure the "type: " line says "SCSI", not ESDI, or uknown, etc.. i had this same problem before, and this corrected it joey On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ian Kallen wrote: > > I'm kind of burning in hell right now. I'm installing CURRENT onto a > system with a 3940 controller that has the AIC-7895 chip. OK fine. I > found the boot floppy that has the CAM stuff in it at > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ > and did my install thing, copied the CAM aware kernel and chflag'd schg. > Now the system comes up and sees the 3940 busses as ahc0 and ahc1, as I > expected but it can't mount root. It's sees the disks and barfs, > something like this: > da0: 4095Mb (normal looking disk recognition stuff) > error 6: panic: cannot mount root > > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this > installation? > > -Ian (installs are usually soooo easy!) Kallen > > -- > I have an answering machine in my car. It says "I'm home now. But leave a > message and I'll call when I'm out." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message