From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 14 12: 1:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interchange.ca (ns.interchange.ca [216.126.79.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389BD37B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.interchange.ca (Fastmailer, from userid 555) id 20791209A; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:00:59 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="------------Boundary-00=_NLJR2PC3LIFNTT4D7TH0" To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael Richards" X-Fastmail-IP: 24.156.176.65 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:00:59 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------Boundary-00=_NLJR2PC3LIFNTT4D7TH0 Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > The 1200 is part of the "rawhide" family of machines. Our > bootloader provokes bugs in the console firmware of the rawhide > (or vice versa) and prevents the machine from booting FreeBSD via > floppy or CD-ROM devices. Has anyone narrowed these bugs down so we know exactly what the problem is? Is it reasonable to expect a workaround, or is this simply not possible? > One workaround is to dd the contents of the boot.flp (2.8MB) > floppy to a scsi disk and boot from that. If I do this, can I actually install over that drive, or is it not loaded into a memory disk? > Your situation is slightly more complex because you have an > Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. I don't think the SRM console will > boot from that device (though FreeBSD supports it). It will only > boot from drives listed by the ">>>show dev" command. Controllers > which should work include Qlogic and NCR/LSI/SYMbios controllers. So I see. I guess I will switch it around so the hard drives run from the onboard controller and the CD-Rom runs from the adaptec. I don't know why they set it up this way... > I strongly suggest you do not run 5.0 on this box right now. Why is that and what is wrong with 5.0? -Michael _________________________________________________________________ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians --------------Boundary-00=_NLJR2PC3LIFNTT4D7TH0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message