From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 24 9:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B3C37BAC6; Wed, 24 May 2000 09:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA18934; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:33:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA21932; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:33:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:33:16 -0400 (EDT) To: "Marks, Maurice" Cc: msmith@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 4.0 CD booting - cant find init on XP1000 In-Reply-To: <9996FB0C6AB3D111B9FB0000F81E38A20940A9F1@lkgexc1.tay.dec.com> References: <9996FB0C6AB3D111B9FB0000F81E38A20940A9F1@lkgexc1.tay.dec.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14636.984.841079.303829@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marks, Maurice writes: > Disconnecting the Tru64 disk solved the problem! Amazing but true. I wish I > knew why... > thanks > /maurice Me too! I don't really understand what's happening. Perhaps the auther of the new, simplified rootdev selection code might have some insight. Mike? Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > -----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