From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 23 7:38: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jacinto.yi.org (dsl-64-34-174-133.telocity.com [64.34.174.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F120A37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:37:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ucsd.edu (soledad [192.168.123.110]) by jacinto.yi.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g2NFZCX76208; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erich@ucsd.edu) Message-ID: <3C9CA134.5070407@ucsd.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:37:24 -0800 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eric_Hedstr=F6m?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attila Nagy Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA flash card under 4-STABLE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Er, you're trying to boot from the compact flash? You're out of luck doing that from a PCCard slot. You'd have to have a desktop PC with an ATA/CF connector. You can get it to mount etc. from a PCCard slot, but only after the system has booted. Eric Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > >>: Mar 22 23:11:02 keksz /kernel: pccard: card inserted, slot 0 >>: Mar 22 23:11:07 keksz pccardd[40]: Card "128MB"(" ") [5.0] [(null)] has function ID 4 >>: Mar 22 23:11:12 keksz pccardd[40]: driver allocation failed for (null)((null)): Device not configured >>You likely need to create a custom entry for the card then, because the >>default one doesn't work on your machine due to resource conflicts. > > Could you please help me in this? > This is my first encounter with PCMCIA related stuff, so I don't really > know what should I do. > I tried to place some ATA related entries from /etc/defaults/pccard.conf > to /etc/pccard.conf with the card "128MB" " " line, but got similar > errors like the above. > What else should I do? > > Another question is if I can access the card with a good pccard.conf > entry, how will it be possible to boot from that? The machine has a BIOS > extension which is able to boot from the flash, but I don't understand how > will this boot a FreeBSD system? Say, I can load the kernel, it executes, > but right after that I can't access the flash for the root FS, because the > kernel doesn't recognize the ATA flashcard as a valid ATA device. And > pccardd comes into picture later... > > Thanks a lot! > --------[ Free Software ISOs - ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/ ]------- > Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu > Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) > cell.: +3630 306 6758 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message