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From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com>
Subject: Re: SCO OS 5.0.6 Initial install creates system panic on Compaq ML570
Date: 25 Jun 2003 17:09:00 -0400
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Judy Guenther typed (on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:15:14AM -0700):
| Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com> wrote in message news:<20030625055830.GI22421@sco.com>...
| > 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?
| > 
| > Can you please clarify the above statement?  You're apparently using
| > some boot strings, maybe during ISL, maybe during post-ISL reboots.
| > Show us the actual strings used at each stage, and clearly state what
| > happens with each.
| > 
| > Parts I'm confused about: "regardless of which controller the hard
| > drives are attached" -- you only mentioned one controller.  The machine
| > probably has another built in, but don't expect the reader to know that,
| > spell it out.
| > 
| > "if the defbootstr is entered at the boot prompt and you quit and don't
| > actually load the btld" -- haven't a clue what that means.
| > 
| > If you're using a BTLD (as it sounds like you must be), please name it.
| > 
| > What are the last few lines of output before the panic?  I think
| > typically there would be some other explanatory error messages before
| > the "srmountfun" panic (something like "no root disk controller" -- but
| > please type in the exact text of the last few lines of output).
| > 
| > >Bela<
| 
| Sorry for the confusion.  We are using EFS 5.58B.
| 
| Here is the exact error:
| 
| Error:  PANIC: srmountfun - Error 6
| mounting rootdev hd (1/42)
|  
| Error 6 opening dumpdev hd (1/41) Dump not completed
| Warning: ciss <slot 5>: Event notifier disabled.
| 
| 
| The boot string that was entered when the drives were connected to the
| 5304 is:
| 
|      defbootstr link=ciss hd=Sdsk Sdsk=ciss(0,0,0,0) Srom=wd(0,0,0)
| 
| bootstring entered when connected to internal controller was:
|  
|      defbootstr link=cha hd=Sdsk Sdsk=cha(0,0,0,0) Srom=wd(0,0,0)
| 
| Here is what is happening.  The machine is currently up and running. 
| We used the first boot string when loading the OS.  On first boot
| after insallation, we enter the same boot string again.

Why???  If you link in a particular BTLD at installation, the kernel that
is compiled when installtion finished *contains that driver*.  You no
longer have to specify its use with a defbootstr command, it's in the
/stand/unix kernel.

| At the prompt to enter efs diskette, we quit out and the OS came up.
| Then, we were unable to see the CDROM drive.  Rebooted and did not use
| the boot string and OS came up and we were able to see CDROM.

-- 
JP

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