[geeks] AAAARGH! new drives in an Octane!

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Well, this is news to me.  I stuck a 36GB drive in my Octane to use as a
> file storage drive. 
>
> Boot the Octane, and the kernel throws a panic.

Did you perhaps have a slice listed in /etc/fstab that would have
referenced that SCSI ID?  For example, were you replacing a disc?

> Take 36GB drive out, Octane boots fine.
> 
> Stick it back in and try to boot, kernel panic.

The panic didn't tell why it decided to flail its arms in agony? Normally,
there's a message like "panic: out of palatable ale" just before the dump.

> It dawns on me to try boot into sash and fx the drive before booting. 
> Viola!  It works.

In that case, it definitely sounds like your Octane was trying to mount a
filesystem on there, and got horribly confused due to the lack of a volume
header and disklabel.

--Jonathan