Bizarre...

	In the message below it appears to be trying to change to sd0a?

	Can you boot the kernel -a & manually tell it where the root &
	swap are?

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

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On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, David Rosenthal wrote:

> > Are you sure you blew away everything in
> > /sys/arch/i386/compile/.../ before config'ing the new kernel &
> > building - also how does a straight 1.2 GENERIC kernel do?
> 
> Yes - I removed the compile/FOO directory before building the FOO kernel.
> 
> I tried to boot the GENERICADP kernel ftp-ed from NetBSD.org on one of
> the machines.  It has exactly the same problem - it tries to change the
> root to the non-existent wd0 and panics.  Here is the boot output from
> a NetBSD1.2beta kernel booting on exactly the same hardware (modulo a
> change of sd0 from a 2GB Quantum to a 730MB IBM drive):
> 
> NetBSD 1.2_BETA (VIFFS) #40: Thu Oct 24 04:04:02 PDT 1996
>     root@fumble.vitria.com:/export/fumble/NetBSD-current/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/VIFFS
> CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
> real mem  = 16384000
> avail mem = 13897728
> using 225 buffers containing 921600 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> isa0 at mainbus0
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37f irq 7
> ed0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f irq 3
> ed0: address 00:c0:d1:08:0d:b6, type NE2000 (16-bit)
> ed1 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f irq 9
> ed1: address 00:c0:d1:08:09:51, type NE2000 (16-bit)
> ed2 at isa0 port 0x240-0x25f irq 5
> ed2: address 00:c0:d1:08:10:71, type NE2000 (16-bit)
> ed3 at isa0 port 0x2c0-0x2df irq 15
> ed3: address 00:c0:d1:57:00:52, type NE2000 (16-bit)
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
> pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
> vendor 0x8086 product 0x1250 (class bridge, subclass host, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> vendor 0x8086 product 0x7000 (class bridge, subclass ISA, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured
> ahc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
> ahc0: interrupting at irq 11
> ahc0: Reading SEEPROM...done.
> ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
> ahc0: Reseting Channel A
> ahc0: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
> scsibus0 at ahc0
> ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, VP32210, 81H8> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 2103MB, 4243 cyl, 8 head, 126 sec, 512 bytes/sec
> ahc0: target 1 synchronous at 5.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-76S, 1.1c> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
> vendor 0x5333 product 0x8811 (class display, subclass VGA, revision 0x43) at pci0 dev 10 function 0 not configured
> biomask 840 netmask 8a68 ttymask 8afa
> changing root device to sd0a
> 
> The generic kernel doesn't recognize the various ed? interfaces properly,
> and it thinks the Adaptec host adaptor is ahc1,  but everything else looked
> OK until it tried to change root to wd0.
> 
> 	David.
>