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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!news From: mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) Subject: Re: Anyone installed on ADAPTEC AH1542-B ? Organization: University of Western Ontario Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 15:09:02 GMT Message-ID: <RXVsuB6w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> References: <By9tF8.D2K@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: student.business.uwo.ca Lines: 53 peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller) writes: > Hi netters! > I have a Adaptec Controller runnin with several HD's. > On the first one I want to install 386bsd. > Everything is fine, installation disk installs correctly and > the system comes up from harddisk. After booting I extracted > the binary distribution, everything ok. > Then I wanted to tar the new kernel (with patches and crypt and stuff) > to the harddisk. (I have this kernel running on 8 other machines but > with AT-bus controller not SCSI controller! > When I reboot the system all ends in an infinite reboot. > There is just a short message on the screen which I managed to > read: I had a simular problem, and it turned out to be the fstab file (if I remember correctly). Check those /etc files. Somewhere a file is created that describes your particular drive. When I changed it back to what it should be, all worked ok. > BSD ... > pc0<color> at ... > com1 .. > com2 .. > fd0 .. > we0 .. > npx0 .. > changing root device to as0a > panic: cannot mount root > trap type 12 code = fe050000 eip = fe012056 cs = 0? eflags = 13282 cr2 14 > cpl 480 > > panic: trap > > The operating system is saving a copy of RAM memory to device 1, offset 0 > (hit any key to abort): [ amount left to save (MB) ] -- device bad > system rebooting. > > Any suggestions? > - Peter 8*( > -- > /--------------------------------------------------------\ > | Peter Burgstaller| Student of Computerscience | > | (peter@cosy.sbg.ac.at)| in Salzburg, Austria (Europe) | > | "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" (Douglas Adams) | > \--------------------------------------------------------/ mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) Western Business School -- London, Ontario