From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 25 10:29:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90D537B912 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02309; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005251730.KAA02309@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Steve Roome Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-stable won't boot In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2000 13:44:57 BST." <20000525134456.D28056@moose.bri.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:30:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:35:55PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just did a cvsup to RELENG_4 about noon EST today (Wed), built world, > > > installed a new kernel, and rebooted. now, when I boot, I get the > > > following: > > ... > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a > > > no such device 'ad' > > > > Sounds like you left the 'ad' device out of your new kernel config. Bad > > idea. 8) > > For what it's worth, I had similar problems recently as well, although > I was getting ata_master: timeout waiting for command (from memory), This is a totally different problem. > however I did have the ad device, and the problem seemed to be related > to some sort of conflict that appeared only when I had one of the > following also in the kernel : > > options AUTO_EOI_1 > options AUTO_EOI_2 > device pcm > device pcf > > I've not narrowed it down much yet, but suffice it to say that I got > almost the same problem described above, but which automagically fixed > itself once I took out the above 4 lines. Did you take all of them out at once? The AUTO_EOI options are BAD and EVIL and we should _not_ be letting people use them. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message