>
> Sorry- maybe more of an edge case. It really has to do with 'ad' support
> seemingly vanishing from the alpha. Or, rather, it's hard to say exactly
> what has happened:
>
>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/rad0a
> no such device 'rad'
You never mount 'r' devices. That should be '/dev/ad0a', and you can
override the default with either:
set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ad0a"
in the loader at the 'ok' prompt, or by entering 'ufs:/dev/ad0a' at the
emergency recovery prompt that you get after the error messages you've
quoted above.
> But then, there's an older system on da0:
>
> Mounting root from ufs:da0a
> WARNING: clock gained 14 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> swapon: adding /dev/da0b as swap device
>
> which makes it less of a bad bad but still very very annoying. It's hard
> to find out what's going on because even though there is some vague
> attempts to stop the loader (whereupon you get a phony 'ok' prompt), no
> passing of variables set there occurs (so no 'bootverbose').
The variable's name is boot_verbose, but the Alpha has never supported it
(a combination of oversight and overbusiness on both my part and Doug's).
You'll find that 'boot -v' and 'load kernel -v' will achieve the desired
results in the meantime, and I'll try to get it working "right" soon now
that I have a 'real' alpha to work on.
I'm also curious as to what's "phony" about the 'ok' prompt? Is it just
that things aren't 'ok'? 8)
> So, it's conceivable that this is just edge case alpha breakage. With < 2
> weeks to feature freeze for 4.0 it is very hard for some of us who attempt
> to make sure things we deliver actually work on both platforms if the
> second platform is broken. I'm plenty pissed off, but, c'est la vie...
So we should, like, feature freeze before we feature freeze? That's not
so good. I don't mean to be insulting or anything, but so far most of
your problems appear to be pilot error. If you take them out of the
picture, it's not _really_ that bad. 8)
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