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- >From: Howard Dobson <hwdobso@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- >Subject: Re: No suitable root
- >To: groo@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu (Bill Squier)
- >Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 00:17:41 -0500
- >
- >> Well, I got all the X stuff, did an install of everything and tried to reboot
- >> with the new 709, and I get "no suitable root". [...]
- >> I'm going to grab the stuff
- >> for the bcmp.s problems and rebuild 709 myself with their patches and see if
- >> that doesn't fix it. Anyone know if they did anything strange with that
- >> build?
- >
- >I get "no suitable root" every once and a while also. It prints something
- >like "sbic_wait ..." and fails to recognize my sd1 drive. (Never had
- >problems under the normal 709 or 644). It also ignores my tape drive,
- >(which was a little annoying when I downloaded some X stuff I found
- >under Ados and wanted to put it over int NetBSD).
- >
-
- After I rebuilt the patched 709 myself, everything worked fine. I'm trying
- to get my tape drive working (an old Wangtek 5099EN, connected to the SCSI
- bus through some strange Adaptec SCSI<-->Unknown interface board).
-
- Strangely enough, the drive functions just fine on an A3000 (built in SCSI
- host adapter) under AmigaDOS, but not under NetBSD. It doesn't function
- at all on my A2000 (GVP Series II + 8 SCSI host adapter). Neither under ADOS
- or NetBSD. ADOS just doesn't recognize ANYTHING at SCSI ID4, NetBSD sees
- it, but can't use it. (this is identical to the NetBSD behaviour on my
- friends A3000) I imagine that the GVP firmware gvpscsi.device is
- braindead. Someone mentioned that they had gotten their newer WANGTEK working.
- Any patches?
-
- -wps
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