From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Dec 8 12:46:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07342 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:46:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.gn.iaf.nl (silver.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07310 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:45:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by silver.gn.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA03166; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 21:45:42 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA00420 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 8 Dec 1998 21:37:33 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id VAA01867; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 21:31:39 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199812082031.VAA01867@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: installing boot? In-Reply-To: <199812070041.QAA00912@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 6, 98 04:41:43 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 21:31:39 +0100 (CET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Mike Smith wrote... > > > > /mfsroot.gz is on the floppy, on an UFS filesystem written by FreeBSD/x86: > > > > > > Yes; there's some problem with floppy filesystems that I haven't been > > > able to work out yet. Make a second copy of the kern.flp, delete the > > > files off it and put the mfsroot.gz file on there instead. For some > > > reason that seems to work OK. > > > > I tried this and it works OK now, finds mfsroot etc. What I need to figure > > out now is why it did not find the harddisks (at least that is what > > sysinstall tells me, and it is bogus). > > What disks, what controller? AXPpci33 builtin NCR810, see dmesg.boot excerpt below Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle ncr0: restart (scsi reset). de0: enabling 100baseTX port (probe4:ncr0:0:4:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 1 80 0 ff 0 (probe4:ncr0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 (probe4:ncr0:0:4:0): Invalid field in CDB sks:c8,1 pass0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device pass0: Serial Number PCB=419234246499(ZG34246499 ?); HDA=0000000033965870 pass0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled pass1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 pass1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device pass1: Serial Number 00165105 pass1: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled pass2 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 pass2: Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device pass2: 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da0: Serial Number PCB=419234246499(ZG34246499 ?); HDA=0000000033965870 da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 2007MB (4110480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 255C) da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da1: Serial Number 00165105 da1: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 2007MB (4110480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 255C) Consi(cd0:ncr0:0:4:0): READ CD RECORDED CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (cd0:ncr0:0:4:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (cd0:ncr0:0:4:0): Medium not present cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device cd0: 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present dering UFS root f/s. da1: invalid primary partition table: no magic da1: raw partition size != slice size da1: start 0, end 4110479, size 4110480 da1c: start 0, end 4092479, size 4092480 Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message