From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 25 08:45:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07883 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 08:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07386; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 08:43:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdtancsa@sentex.net) Received: (from mdtancsa@localhost) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) id LAA04676; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:43:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mike D Tancsa Message-Id: <199803251643.LAA04676@granite.sentex.net> Subject: boot disk gets stuck probing wd0 with 2.2.6 floppy To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:43:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I dont know if its just my wonky hardware or not, but I downloaded the new 2.2.6 boot floppy with the intention of upgrading my stable box to the release version. All seems to boot fine, but when it goes to the "probing devices", the system seems to get stuck in a loop. When I booted with the -v, the message that keeps coming up forever is wd0s1: type 0xa5, Start 63, end=4124705, size 4124673:OK When I boot the old system, here is all the hardware info FreeBSD 2.2-980304-SNAP #0: Wed Mar 18 13:22:30 EST 1998 mdtancsa@sand2.sentex.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/sand2 CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes) avail memory = 46612480 (45520K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: vga0 rev 20 int a irq ?? on pci0:12 wdc0 rev 2 int a irq 14 on pci0:15 chip0 rev 1 on pci0:16 chip1 rev 1 on pci0:18 Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 9 on isa ed0: address 00:40:33:33:f8:ee, type NE2000 (16 bit) sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 on isa sio2: type 16550A lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: CMD640B workaround enabled wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 2014MB (4124736 sectors), 4092 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, logging limited to 10000 packets/entry % mount /dev/wd0a on / (local) /dev/wd0s1f on /usr (asynchronous, local, noatime) /dev/wd0s1e on /var (asynchronous, local, noatime) # /dev/rwd0c: type: ESDI disk: wd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 192 sectors/cylinder: 12096 cylinders: 340 sectors/unit: 4124673 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 143360 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 11*) b: 393216 143360 swap # (Cyl. 11*- 44*) c: 4124673 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 340*) e: 409600 536576 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 44*- 78*) f: 3178497 946176 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 78*- 340*) sand2# fdisk wd0 ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=341 heads=192 sectors/track=63 (12096 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=341 heads=192 sectors/track=63 (12096 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 4124673 (2014 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 340/ sector 63/ head 191 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message