Re: SCO OS 5.0.6 Initial install creates system panic on Compaq ML570

From: Bela Lubkin (belal_at_sco.com)
Date: 06/25/03

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    Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 06:04:36 GMT
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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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