From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 9:43: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E80237B404 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:43:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.corp.shaw.ca (mail3.corp.shaw.ca [204.209.208.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1F243FA3 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:42:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Darren.Gamble@sjrb.ca) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.MAIL3.SJRB.CA by MAIL3.SJRB.CA (PMDF V6.2 #30522) id <01KTPF6BIVZK000JFT@MAIL3.SJRB.CA> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:42:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shawmailims.shaw.ca ("port 4978"@shawmail.shaw.ca [10.0.4.20]) by MAIL3.SJRB.CA (PMDF V6.2 #30522) with ESMTP id <01KTPF6BDPJ8000K9P@MAIL3.SJRB.CA> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:42:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: by shawmail.shaw.ca with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:42:56 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:42:55 -0700 From: Darren Gamble Subject: RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960? To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day, It's been about a week since I posted this, so, I'd just like to ask one more time before I give up testing and just put Linux back on the machine. The machine that I'm now trying to install FreeBSD on is a HP lp2000r netserver, dual P3 1GHz, AcceleRAID 160 PCI RAID Controller (also a DAC960, but using FreeBSD's mly driver), and installing via CD on a standard ATAPI CDROM drive. As documented on the 5.0 hardware release notes, the package installation just stops a few minutes after it starts. The same thing happens if I try a FTP install using floppies. I then tried 4.8-RC2 and 4.7-RELEASE. In both cases, the installer does load the mly module, and the module does indeed find the RAID controller (as noted on the debug screen) but it doesn't find any drives. I finally went all the way back to 4.6-RELEASE, which detected my hardware properly and with which I successfully did the install. So, again, I'd like to try out 5.0 on this machine just to do some benchmarking on how far smp support has come. I have a working 4.6 system on it, so I could try to do this the hard way with cvsup/makeworld/mergemaster, but what gotchas are there to doing this? 4.X uses gcc 2 and 5.x uses gcc 3, and of course it's going up a major version, so I'm not quite sure what to expect. Is there any other way to get 5.0-RELEASE/CURRENT on this system? Thanks in advance, ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message