On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:15:17PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:14:26PM -0600, Jay Nelson wrote:
> > I can't get a bootable install off one particular box and I'm hoping
> > someone can help.
> > 
> > The disk probe on boot is returning a mode sense "too large to make
> > sense" message (or similar -- I'm working from memory.) The number
> > cylinders picked up in sysinstall are, in fact, too large. (Something
> > in excess of 33,000) Changing the geometry in sysinstall has no
> > effect.
> 
> Can you try to post the NetBSD boot message here ?
 
It turns out, my memory wasn't very good. Reported cylinders are
13088. The msgbuf is below. I notice that the name of the drive is
completely different. If FreeBSD dmesg output is helpful, I can send
that, too.

This is an ASUS T2P4 motherboard with the SCSI bios disabled. The
Symbios controller also has it's bios disabled.

Thanks.

-- jay

NetBSD 1.5ZA (INSTALL) #0: Tue Feb 19 17:11:18 EST 2002
    root@zathras.wasabisystems.com:/big/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL
cpu0: AMD K6 (586-class), 199.45 MHz
cpu0: I-cache 32 KB 32b/line 2-way, D-cache 32 KB 32b/line 2-way
cpu0: features 8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
cpu0: features 8001bf<MMX>
total memory = 65148 KB
avail memory = 55104 KB
using 839 buffers containing 3356 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xf0400
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1250 (rev. 0x03)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7000 (rev. 0x01)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Intel 82371SB IDE Interface (PIIX3) (rev. 0x00)
pciide0: device disabled (at device)
vendor 0x1002 product 0x4758 (VGA display, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
siop0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c815 (fast scsi)
siop0: interrupting at irq 9
scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
adw0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: AdvanSys ASB-3940UW-00 SCSI adapter
adw0: interrupting at irq 10
scsibus1 at adw0: 16 targets, 7 luns per target
ex0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: 3Com 3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x30)
ex0: interrupting at irq 11
ex0: MAC address 00:01:02:63:b7:fb
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
pc0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask f7e5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
st0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <WANGTEK, 5525ES SCSI REV7, 3R4> SCSI1 1/sequential removable
st0: rogue, drive empty
st0: async, 8-bit transfers
cd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-55S, 1.0t> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
cd0: async, 8-bit transfers
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
adw0: target 0 using 8-bits wide, 20.8 MHz synchronous transfers
sd0 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <ALSV__L, 03193809 001\014000, 0000> SCSI3 0/direct fixed
sd0: mode sense (4) returned nonsense; using fictitious geometry
sd0: 13088 MB, 13088 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 26804227 sectors
md0: internal 2048 KB image area
sd0: mode sense (4) returned nonsense; using fictitious geometry
sd0: no disk label
boot device: fd0
root on md0a dumps on md0b
root file system type: ffs
warning: no /dev/console