From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 11:10:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA10355 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10348 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:10:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA20951 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:57:14 +0100 Message-Id: <199512201657.AA20951@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:57:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: Cyrus W Moler "FreeBSD 2.1" (Dec 20, 10:08) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Cyrus W Moler Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 20, 10:08, Cyrus W Moler wrote: } Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 Sorry to hear that you are disappointed ... } Just got the Walnut Creek CD of FreeBSD 2.1 and I must say I'm } disappointed. I have a version 2.0 system running now, on a Micron 60Mz } Pentium machine, w/16MB RAM, 3 SCSI HD, NexStor (NCR 53C810 based) PCI } SCSI controller, and a Chinon 535 CD-ROM. The system is on my second } SCSI hard drive with a small DOS partition. I use a boot disk when and } the command sd(1,a)/kernel when I want the do UNIX. When the system } boots BSD v2.0 here is an excerpt of the messages I get: } } ncr0 targ 6 lun 0: type 5(readonly) removable SCSI2 } ncr0 targ 6 lun 0: } assertion "cp == np->header.cp" failed: file "../../i386/pci/ncr.c", line 5171 } cd0(ncr0:6:0): phase change 6-2 6@273c0 resid=5. The CHINON rejects the synch. transfer negotiation request. } cd0(ncr0:6:0): asynchronous. } cd0(ncr0:6:0): unit attention } cd0: cd present.[400000 x 2048 byte records] Seems to work ... The CHINON is a cheap drive, and I had some problem (and it required some help from a 535 owner who tried the patches I sent) to get it working at all. But I'm afraid, I don't quite understand your message. - Does 2.1R fail to complete the boot sequence ? - Do you boot a GENERIC or customized kernel ? - What is the final message printed ? Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se