From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 15 12:32:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C99D14C04; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:32:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25329; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:57:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:57:57 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing onto ami mega raid. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > I spent about 2 to 3 hours last night futzing with sysinstall and > getting the amr.ko file onto the 4.0 install disk (using the > 4.0-19991114 SNAP) I tried adding the amr disks to devices.c in > sysinstall but had no luck. ... replying to my own message, I seem to have compiled the install stuff from Oct25th or so, Bill F told me about libdisk needing an update to install on new media, however I just assumed it wasn't done, but it was! :) (I was compiling sysinstall with an outdated libdisk) However, sysinstall's devices.c file still lacks entries for it, right now I can't test but will be able to tonight, any ideas on whether it'll just work? (has anyone tested installs on the AMI mega-raid?) Or perhaps we need this patch in sysinstall? thanks, -Alfred > > After booting the install disks and loading the amr kld (the probe > messages showed that it was detected) I escaped to the prompt > (alt+f4). I saw that the amrd0 /dev/ entries had been created, > but attempts to access them gave "unit 0 not available" (as far as > i remeber) > > What exactly needs to be done to get 4.0 installed with a amr disk > as root? > > this is what I tried: > > Index: devices.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/sysinstall/devices.c,v > retrieving revision 1.106 > diff -u -r1.106 devices.c > --- devices.c 1999/11/09 19:10:15 1.106 > +++ devices.c 1999/11/15 14:07:33 > @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ > { DEVICE_TYPE_TAPE, "rwt%d", "Wangtek tape drive", 10, 0, 1, 4, 'c' }, > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "da%d", "SCSI disk device", 4, 65538, 8, 16, 'b' }, > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "rda%d", "SCSI disk device", 13, 65538, 8, 16, 'c' }, > + { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "amrd%d", "AMI-MEGARAID disk", 35, 65538, 8, 16, 'b' }, > + { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "ramrd%d", "AMI-MEGARAID disk", 133, 65538, 8, 16, 'c' }, > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "wd%d", "IDE/ESDI/MFM/ST506 disk device", 0, 65538, 8, 16, 'b' }, > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "rwd%d", "IDE/ESDI/MFM/ST506 disk device", 3, 65538, 8, 16, 'c' }, > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "ad%d", "ATA/IDE disk device", 30, 65538, 8, 16, 'b' }, > > > Any ideas? We're really depending on getting these things going RSN. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message