Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:43:01 -0700 From: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating Message-ID: <5E9E5D7C-608A-4997-BE39-70074A0A93E2@emeraldcityeg.com> In-Reply-To: <200710201607.11221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <47192969.20809@samsco.org> <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com> <200710201607.11221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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I should note that these systems are all (a) floppy drive free and (b) standard IDE/ATA hard drive free (e.g.: booting from RAID) so everything I do has to be done with .iso -> CD-R burns or a usb flash drive. If I'd been doing things with a floppy scenario it would likely have been easier... In the end, the way I built an install CD was I used a Windows-only piece of software called UltraISO which allows you to edit .iso images and add/remove files. I dropped the precompiled .ko driver into /boot/kernel/ on the downloadable Freebsd boot iso and then burned a custom boot CD with the right drivers on it. When I boot from that CD, I load the driver and then continue with the installation. It all works well from there. On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> Great perspective here, thanks for taking the time to respond. I >> agree with you and believe that some attention should be put on the >> hardware vendor driver side of things. It was *such* a pain to get >> to the point where I could even install Freebsd on these machines. >> And 3Ware RAID controllers are pretty standard IMHO. >> >> I've upgraded to RELENG_6 from RELENG_6_2 but I'm not at the data >> center and I cannot chance a reboot with the twa driver not working >> for me and the machine not coming back up. > > It is quite trivial to modify the install disk if you have another > FreeBSD machine handy to build the kernel. You can just drop in the > module you want to /boot/kernel on the CD. > > Although I agree, it would be nice if you could more easily load > vendor > drivers.. (ie if the module overrode the kernel code) > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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