Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: port-sun3
Date: 06/16/1996 12:35:48
>>> I'm getting this too. Sun 3/160, SunOS 4.1.1 finds the SCSI
>>> controller fine.
>> What does SunOS call it? If "sc", it's no surprise; [...]. If
>> "si", there's something really bizarre wrong [...].
> Probably something really bizarre, then. To the best of my
> recollection, it was si -- and this accords with the "si: peek
> failed" bit I'm getting now
In my experience, that message means that the ROMs are trying to find
an si and failing because it's really an sc there. "si: peek failed"
means that the ROM si code is _failing_....
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu