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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
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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*(
> --
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mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario