no kernel

[Robert]

Hi Yonetani !

>In theory, you can achieve it by undoing the "reshuffling everything
>around" :) 

Unshuffling was an interesting exercise. :P It wasn't enough to get DF to boot. 
A downgrade to use the onboard controller allowed to boot it, but the cd boot 
still barfs. 

>By "reshuffling" you mean installing a new kernel/world?
>Or swapping disk drives? 

After swapping disk drives, I installed a fresh Free 4.Ten and copied over 
as proposed at http://www.forknibbler.com/guide/installation-cd-to-disk.html 
from the other disk.

>And do you usually boot from a Live CD, rather
>than from the boot loader installed on the disk drive, to use your
>DragonFly box?

Directly from the BIOS. It dosn't touch the disk to boot.

Something was broken in the last two weeks. Previously there wasn't any more 
problems then with any other bootable cd that I have.

For more details on the hardware, here's a dmesg from this last successful 
install:

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 The DragonFly Project.
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
DragonFly 1.0-CURRENT #0: Sat May 29 22:57:13 GMT 2004
    root at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (333.06-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x651  Stepping = 1
  Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory  = 201326592 (196608K bytes)
avail memory = 184856576 (180524K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "/kernel" at 0xc05b8000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 5 entries at 0xc00edb20
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0x44000000-0x47ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <ATI Mach64-GZ graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
atapci0: <SiI 0680 ATA133 controller> port 0x20a0-0x20af,0x20d4-0x20d7,0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20d0-0x20d3,0x20c0-0x20c7 mem 0x40100000-0x401000ff irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0 
ata2: at 0x20c0 on atapci0
installed MI handler for int 10
ata3: at 0x20c8 on atapci0
xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x2000-0x203f irq 9 at device 14.0 on pci0 
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:af:e0:12
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
installed MI handler for int 9
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5880) at 15.0 irq 11
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 20.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci1: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x20b0-0x20bf at device 20.1 on pci0 
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
installed MI handler for int 14
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
installed MI handler for int 15
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x2080-0x209f irq 7 at device 20.2 on pci0 
installed MI handler for int 7
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ums0: Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Orbit, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
pci0: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> at 20.3
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xe0000-0xe7fff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
installed MI handler for int 6
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
installed MI handler for int 1
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250
installed MI handler for int 4
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
installed MI handler for int 0
ad0: 19092MB <WDC WD200EB-00CSF0> [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad4: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00CRA1> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
acd0: CD-RW <HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B> at ata0-slave PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
cd0: <HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B 1.07> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray closed 
ad4s4: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
ad4s4: start 1028160, end 37815119, size 36786960
ad4s4c: start 0, end 156301487, size 156301488
ad4s4: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
ad4s4: start 1028160, end 37815119, size 36786960
ad4s4c: start 0, end 156301487, size 156301488
ad4s4: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
ad4s4: start 1028160, end 37815119, size 36786960
ad4s4c: start 0, end 156301487, size 156301488
		
Of course it still doesn't dig the OpenBSD partitions as before 
but that didn't prevent it to boot anything up ...some two weeks ago.
	
Thanks alot!
		
Regards,
		
Robert