How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

[Christian Hiris]

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On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:56, Stacey Roberts wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 02 December 2004 08:23, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > Hi Christian,
> > >
> > > What I've been doing is swapping hardware around on this box in order
> > > to get 5.3-REL CD-Sets to boot on this machine.., What I found is that
> > > swapping out the Tekram card for an Adaptec-29160 enabled (for whatever
> > > reason) to be able to boot and install off the 5.3-REL CD's.
> > >
> > > After (using the 29160 SCSI disk utility) formatting both SCSI disks,
> > > the installation went fine, until the first reboot - I get the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > No /boot/loader
> > >
> > > FreeBSD/i386 boot
> > > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel
> > > No /kernel
> > >
> > > FreeBSD/i386 boot
> > > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel
> > > boot:
> >
> > Try  "0:da(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel" here. Maybe your bios reports a wrong
> > controller, in this case try "1:da(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel". Try also the
> > second disk "0:da(1,a)/boot/kernel/kernel".
>
> Will try these shortly.., not in front of the machine at the moment..,
>
> > When you install from the CD, it is possible to display diagnostic and
> > error messages on the second terminal. You can reach it by pressing
> > ALT-F2.
>
> Will do..,

[...]

> > BTW - which mainboard do you use?
>
> Here're the specs of the box:
>
> Mainboard: Tyan Tiger 230 S2507D - running BIOS Version 106 (latest, I
> believe) SCSI Cards: Adaptec 29160 and Tekram DC-390UW - Notes:
>
> The Adaptec is not new, but was in use and working fine on another machine
> (also running FreeBSD) up until about four months ago. The Tekram card was
> new.
>
> CDROM drive - Samsung 52x (new)
> Floppy drive - standard 1.44 (new)
> *ALL* internal cables are new, including the u160 cables - each of the sets
> that I've been swapping around
>
> Let me know if there's anything else I can provide, please.., Thanks again
> for getting back to me.

Hi, there is nothing more i need to know. I hope you will find some messages 
on the second terminal during install, look out for write errors or something 
like that. If we are not able to solve your problem by theese error messages, 
it's the best to rename the subject to "5.3-R installation fails on Tyan 
Tiger 230", so that the gurus have a look on it.

There just one more thing - the GENERIC kernel on the 5.3-RELEASE CD has been 
compiled w/o 'option SMP', but I think that shouldn't matter.  

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