From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 11 13:43: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B941533B for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA29380; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:13:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02966; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:30:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199906111930.VAA02966@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Is the CD driver supposed to attach() now regardless of media? In-Reply-To: <14177.22897.138261.369110@hip186.ch.intel.com> from John Reynolds~ at "Jun 11, 1999 11:46: 9 am" To: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com (John Reynolds~) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, ken@plutotech.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As John Reynolds~ wrote ... > [ On Friday, June 11, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: ] > > One thing which also confuses some people is that sysinstall attempts > > to mount the CD itself - it doesn't like it if you've already got the > > CD mounted someplace else; it *must not* be mounted before you run > > sysinstall or you'll wind up with an attempted double-mount situation. > > > > - Jordan > > Yup. Figured that one out years ago by emperical analysis ;-) Never underestimate the power of human experience ;-) > However, this was running sysinstall from the kern/mfsroot floppy boot > process with no media in the drives at probe time. > > If you have media in the drives at probe time, then sysinstall is happy. If > you don't have media at probe time (but DO have the media in the drive well > ahead of chosing the "media" option within sysinstall), Kenneth was saying > that the drivers still attach() but then sysinstall is confused. My experience is that as long as the CD is in the drive before you boot the floppy sysinstall is happy. Put the CD in later and all bets are off. This has been the case as long as I remember. To be honest I've never considered this behaviour to be a problem. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message