Re: booting problems with the cdrom

[scalopus <scalopus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:06:58PM +0000, Eduardo Tongson wrote:
> On 8/7/05, scalopus <scalopus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   i am trying to install dfbsd in a IBM Netfinity 5000 server:
> > http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-49JP55,
> > but I have several problems with the cdrom.
> > 
> > 1) First i tryed the 1.2 release, this iso:
> > 2CSNAP-20050731-1130-Release-1.2.iso.bz2
> >   The cd even doesn't boot, i can't see the Boot Menu (the
> > dragonfly acsi), it freezes in the "BTX Loader".
> > 
> > 2) Later i tryed the development iso:
> > 2CSNAP-20050724-2330-Devel.iso.bz2
> >   This cd boots, i can see the Boot menu, but when booting
> > the kernel it crashes when accessing to the ata, suppose the
> > atapi, the acd0 cdrom, with the following error:
> > 
> > acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting
> > ata0: WARNING: atapi resetting donecount 28 for retry
> > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > 
> 
> Are you running the hdd and cdrom in a same cable master-slave setup?
> Try moving the cdrom to secondary-slave 
> 
> --ed


Hi,
  the cdrom is in the IDE bus, and the disks are on a IBM ServeRaid-3L
Array-0. The disks are USCSI.

Thanks for the tip.
  scalopus