Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:18:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem booting SNAP floppy on PCI/I-486SP3G Message-ID: <199504251718.KAA10270@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <9504251513.AA03497@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Apr 25, 95 10:13:06 am
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> > > > > > > > > Rod, > > > My 486 PCI Asus Box boots FreeBSD current great... but the latest snap > > > boot floppy and the fixit disk do not. Everything is cool until the PCI > > > is found. > > > ... > > I tried all my boards here, and every one of them works. I will bring > > in a PCI/I-486SP3G this week and see if I can track this down. You > > mention that this works with a -current kernel, what happens if > > you put that kernel on floppy? Or if you copy the floppy kernel to > > hard disk as /kernel.flp and try to boot it? > > > I tried copying the boot floppy to the hard disk and it still will not boot. > I looked at the BOOTFLP config file in /sys/i386/conf and found this entry > that I do not have in CATBURG. > > options "SCSI_NCR_MAX_SYNC=0" #Restrict NCR to asynch. transfers > > Could this be it? Could be, but it worked here with the NCR810's on 4 different systems, and I am using the same disk drive you have (only more of them :-)). Do you have anything besides the DEC3053L disk on you scsi bus now? You also say that a -current kernel works fine, what happens if you build BOOTFLP from you -current sources and try to boot it? (I know, lots of questions and no real answers :-(). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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