Subject: Re: booting 1.2 from sd0
To: David Rosenthal <dshr@vitria.COM>
From: None <david@mono.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/05/1996 11:54:30
(Just to reiterate, more for my benefit than anything else :)
You've config'ed a kernel without wdc or wd*, and with
'config netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0', and
tried 'disklabel -B' on the scsi disk under 1.2 as well?
Hmm, if it cant find the swap maybe somethings up with the
disklabel & 1.2 is more picky - can you post a copy of
your scsi disk label? (Does this happen on both scsi drives?)
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, David Rosenthal wrote:
> > In the message below it appears to be trying to change to sd0a?
>
> Not merely trying but succeeding. The kernel output is from the preceding
> state of the machine, with a 1.1 file system and a 1.2beta kernel. This
> works OK - i.e. it boots and runs perfectly happily. Installing a wd0 in
> this box with 1.2 on it boots and runs happily - one can then access sd0
> perfectly OK but root/swap are on wd0.
>
> > Can you boot the kernel -a & manually tell it where the root &
> > swap are?
>
> Booting with -a I can tell it where the root is, and it comes up with sd0
> as the root. But it doesn't find any swap space and it doesn't ask where
> swap is.
>
>
> Not being able to run from any of my SCSI disks is a real pain. I'm close
> to trashing 1.2 and going back to 1.1.
>
> David.
>