kernel panic on AS1000a

[Tom Ponsford]

Hi All,

Well I had a chance to play with the AS1000 this weekend. Before playing with 
the hints
before booting the cdrom, I tried two things, I changed the boot_osflag from 0 
to blank AND
I took out a floppy that was in the floppy drive. The result was no panic and 
I was able to get
to the install menu. I kept the same 64MB of mem as it should install under 
that, which is
all I'm trying to do just now.

The floppy in question was the configuration program as200rcu.exe used to 
configure the
raid controller under the arc console.. I haven't tried another floppy to see 
if that was the
cause, we can check that out later, but my next problem is also a show stopper.

When booting, the software sees and correctly identifies the disks in the 
dmesg. And when
the install menu appears, going into into the disklabel menu, the install 
program correctly
identifies the the disks, ie., cd0, mlx0 mlx1.

But when entering the disklabel menu, there is no disk size defined at the top 
of the menu.
It seems the disklabel menu doesn't yet see the disk geometry. I suspect I 
need to do something
to the disks. Maybe I missed a step, pilot error? a bug?

The two disk attached to the DAC960 raid controller are defined as JBOD, not RAID.

I think I tried the install with the disks formatted, and .or unformatted 
(DOS) by the raid config utility.
But either way it made no difference, the disklabel menu does not see the size 
of the disk!

Any more hints!

Thanks

tom

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