FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies

[Alex Burke]

Hi,

Sorry it took me a little while to reply.

I dont think this is an ATA problem as the hard disks in the system
are all on SCSI channels. Anyway, I dont think an ATA timeout should
affect loading the memory image from floppy, thats why I wanted to ask
if anybody else had seen this. I guess I will have to download the CD
and burn it to check if this is a problem with my machine, or if thats
just a boot floppy issue.

FYI, the system is an IBM Netfinity 7000, quad Pentium Pro box with
512meg RAM. Disks are currently attached to one of the onboard Adaptec
7800 SCSI controllers.

Thanks for the reply, Alex J Burke.

On 7/23/05, Matthias Buelow <mkb at incubus.de> wrote:
> Alex Burke wrote:
> 
> >I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and
> >after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I
> >am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall.
> >I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify
> >ufs:da0s1a...would that be the location of the memory disk?
> 
> There were no ATA timeout messages? Otherwise, this would indicate
> that the nasty ATA bugs are on 6.0 still.
> I have (on 5.4-stable) to try a boot several times until the kernel
> properly recognizes my drive, and it dumps me in the mount root
> prompt when it doesn't.
> 
> mkb.
>