Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:49:57 -0600 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A7V and booting FreeBSD 4.2R from the onboard Promise ATA-100 controller Message-ID: <3A34CD75.8000502@planetwe.com> References: <0012110255191K.09615@smp.kyx.net>
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This didn't require any magic on my part - once I got my NIC and parralel port to stop fighting over the same IRQ. Before that it would hang right after the parralel port was detected. There was never an issue about loading the root partition. What sort of drive do you have? Dragos Ruiu wrote: > Has anyone successfully done this? Can you enlighten me > about the appropriate magic.... ??? > > I found the old PR about the ASUS A7V and it seems to have been fixed in > 4.2R.... The install works fine... the drivers find the controller... the > install seems to work on the new disks hanging of the ATA100. > The boot loader finds the kernel on ad4 and then it craps out saying it > can't load the root partition.... > > Any pointers? > > I'll try moving the root partition disk to the ordinary IDE tomorrow but this > seems like a waste of a good fast disk... > > thanks, > --dr > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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