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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:26:31 -1000
From:      "Peter Stubbs" <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>
To:        invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting from primary wd on wdc1
Message-ID:  <6163C4237E6@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>

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On 19 Feb 96, invalid opcode wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote:
> 
> > Panic : Cannot mount /
> > 
> > Automatic reboot in 15 sec...
> 
> Please post all the startup messages.
> 
> 

Agh!
I'll have to write them down, then type them in at work. I don't
think the screens driver works during boot, so the things that scroll
off the top are lost. 

Until I can get them, here's the general idea

finds real memory
finds sio0,sio1
finds lpt0
finds fd0, fd1
finds wdc0 irq 14
finds wd0 (geometry is correct)
finds wdc1 irq 15
finds wd2 (geometry is correct)
finds aha0
finds cd0
finds npx0
panic cannot mount /
reboot in 15 sec, ....

The messages are similar if I put it on the first controler, only
the second drive is wd1, not wd2. In either case at boot time it
comes up with wd(1,a)/kernel, boots, but can't mount root when on
wdc1. The motherboard is an ASUS PCI 486, and the CPU is an AMD
DX4-100

It should be possible to boot from the second controler on the newer
motherboards, and it can't be too unusual. The application I'm
looking at is a lecturer at a local uni who wants to install FBSD on
some spare space on his third drive, then use the diskless boot from
that box for a classroom of 486's

TIA
Peter


Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS.
ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432



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