Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:15:09 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel cannot mount root with new bootblocks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990105180334.1599C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901051124200.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > In light of all the boot problems I have seen, are there still plans to go > > ELF Kernel tomorrow? I think you will see that people are going to take a > > wait and see aproach with CURRENT if this happens. > > Naw, lets have the commiters walking on eggshells supporting both targets > until the next release. I'm sure they're really keen on that. :) > > I've noticed most all the problems people have been experiancing can be > attributed to user error, not programming error, the boot blocks work fine > and are extremely configuable. Unfortunatly the only documentation > available at this point is this list archive. > > -Alfred Not true. I've already notified Robert Nordier about a problem. It looks like the boot blocks don't work well when the first bios disk is not da0, but da1. This is the case when you swap the channels on a dual channel controller. All in all I do agree with dumping the old blocks in favor of the new. As a temporary work around I put "0:da(1,a)kernel" in /boot.config, yes, boot.config. The original pposter might try this or something similar. Note, I think the proper fix, and I may look into this, is to detect that the channels are swapped and thereby swap ahc0 and ahc1, which would make the bios and the unit number agree. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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