From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 23:48:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8B437B964 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21868 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:48:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdR21864; Thu Jun 22 16:47:55 2000 Message-ID: <008201bfdc16$095e7600$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: Fw: how to boot from DPT SCSI host adaptor ?? Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:49:28 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm trying to install 4.0 RELEASE in an AST Premium SE 4/50d fitted with > a DPT SCSI host adaptor. This system is SCSI only (hard drives & CD-ROM) > ..... there doesn't appear to be any provision for IDE drives. I'm aware > that the generic kernel doesn't support this thing (attempts to install stall when > its looking for drives), but DPT cards are listed in both generic & lint files .... so > obviously there's meant to be some sort of support for them. The problem as I see it > is essentially a "chicken & egg" one .................. *exactly* how does one > go about installing the operating system in the first place so that there's a kernel > source available to edit & compile ?? > > I guess if DPT support could be somehow configured into the boot floppies > then at least install would be able to see the hard drives & CD-ROM, but > in the absence of any info on that I can't imagine where to start. Another > idea is maybe try installing via FTP, then the source is on the hard drive & > maybe once DPT support is compiled in it might be OK on re-booting. > > Comments / suggestions / advice anyone ?? Seems its possible to install via FTP, although only one of the two SCSI hard drives and neither the CD-ROM or Wangdat tape is seen. It still remains to be seen whether or not its possible to change the kernel before rebooting, and whether or not that will get it booting off the hard drive. Assuming it boots OK, how do I get the system to see the second hard drive, the CD-ROM, & the tape drive ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message