special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks

[Sten Spans]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote..
>> Folks,
>>
>> I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed
>> related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L.  Test installs
>> on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk
>> fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't
>> start or similar.  I got:
>>
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.6: Unsupported relocation type 1611047936
>> in non-PLT relocations
>>
>> Observed on one DS10 and one DS10L.  The problem does not
>> occur when you use a SCSI disk (which I typically do so I missed this
>> before).
>>
>> Those of you who own this machine type and have a spare IDE drive,
>> can you please test it?  Other reports for different system models
>> are interesting too of course.
>
> A check of 5.5-BETA1 would be interesting too.

I'll give it a go this weekend on my ds10
(which also normally runs scsi :)

-- 
Sten Spans

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