From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 24 9:29:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zmamail05.zma.compaq.com (zmamail05.zma.compaq.com [161.114.64.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BE937BCC7 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 09:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maurice.marks@compaq.com) Received: by zmamail05.zma.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id F1E9A5B70; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net (exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net [16.103.129.42]) by zmamail05.zma.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D268B5876; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:29:55 -0400 Message-ID: <9996FB0C6AB3D111B9FB0000F81E38A20940A9F1@lkgexc1.tay.dec.com> From: "Marks, Maurice" To: 'Andrew Gallatin' Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 4.0 CD booting - cant find init on XP1000 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:29:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Disconnecting the Tru64 disk solved the problem! Amazing but true. I wish I knew why... thanks /maurice -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:25 AM To: Marks, Maurice Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 CD booting - cant find init on XP1000 Marks, Maurice writes: > I'm having trouble booting the 4.0 CD on an XP1000. The same CD boots fine > and installed FreeBSD on a Miata and a DS10. I'm seeing the "cant find init" > failure that Dirk Kleinhesselink reported in March on a PC164. The XP1000 > has 512MB of memory, 4 SCSI devices on the internal controller. Toshiba IDE > CDROM. Everything looks normal in the boot process until the kernel tries to > mount root on /dev/md0c, finds that md0 has invalid partition information > (no magic number) and later finds that it cant locate init. > > Any ideas appreciated > This is just a guess: Does one of the disk drives contain an installation of Tru64? If so, can you make that drive disappear (pull the power or the scsi cable) while you're booting? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message