Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:07:14 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Message-ID: <14986.58738.419137.472927@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca> References: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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Michael Richards writes: > > 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? The rawhide maintainer has looked into it, but he doesn't know what the problem is. I would not expect a fix any time soon. > > 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? Yes, I think you can install over the drive. Another option might be netbooting the install kernel from that floppy. That process is not documented and is very time consuming to explain. > > 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? FreeBSD 5.0 does not boot reliably on rawhide & hasn't since SMPng hit the tree. The problem has apparently been tracked down and should be fixed shortly. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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