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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: SCO OS 5.0.6 Initial install creates system panic on Compaq ML570
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 06:04:36 GMT
References: <23bfaefb.0306241319.588cf846@posting.google.com>
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Mike Brown wrote:

> Judy Guenther wrote:
> > 
> > Compaq ML570 Server w/4GB Ram, 6-32GB SCSI Hard Drives, Smart-Array
> > 5304/128 Controller
> > 
> > During inital install SCO installs correctly, but during first boot
> > receives the following:  PANIC:  srmountfun - error 6 mounting rootdev
> > hd(1/42).  This occurs each time regardless of which controller the
> > hard drives are attached.  What has been determined is that after
> > system install and during inital boot of O/S if the defbootstr is
> > entered at the boot prompt and you quit and don't actually load the
> > btld then the system boots correctly and does so from then on.  I know
> > that the kernel is not re-generated at this time, but is there a
> > timing issue or possibly something wrong with my hardware?
> 
> Has the 5304 controller been set as the 1st controller in the BIOS ( RBSU )?
> 
> Are you loading the EFS5.58 BTLD at boot time with the string
> 
> defbootstr disable=ciss link=ciss hd=Sdsk Sdsk=ciss(0,0,0,0) Srom=wd(0,0,0)

Does that exact bootstring work?  I would expect not, because of when
the "disable=ciss" and "link=ciss" keywords are acted upon.  "link=ciss"
is done at boot time, by /link (the standalone linker).  By the time the
kernel starts up, it contains the BTLD version of the "ciss" driver.
The kernel then acts on "disable=ciss", disabling the just-loaded
driver.  At least that's how I would expect it to play out.

If that string _does_ work, my guess is that it would work equally well
without the "disable=ciss"; that what's happening is, the newly loaded
"ciss" driver isn't registered in the particular place where "disable="
looks, so it doesn't get disabled.

> I have not loaded a ML570 recently, but the 5304 works in 350/370/530 with
> 5.0.6.

>Bela<

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