From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 01:33:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED9C16A4CF for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:33:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.datausa.com (mail.datausa.com [216.150.220.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C35F43D1D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:33:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@wcubed.net) Received: (qmail 37559 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2004 01:26:06 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-172-8.client.comcast.net (HELO wcubed.net) (24.9.172.8) by mail.datausa.com with SMTP; 7 Jul 2004 01:26:06 -0000 Message-ID: <40EB53E4.6030103@wcubed.net> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:37:40 -0600 From: Brad Waite User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <2398.24.9.172.8.1087316143.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20040616144028.W16072@carver.gumbysoft.com> <2045.24.9.172.8.1087445008.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20040619113634.T48022@carver.gumbysoft.com> <40EA1066.8030709@wcubed.net> <20040706160346.O24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706160346.O24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-STABLE boot issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:33:39 -0000 Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote: > > >>>It obviously works for the rest of the world, and it doesn't look like a >>>BIOS access problem since it can read the file fine if its on /. >> >>Well /boot is *not* on /dev/da0s1a. It's on /dev/amrd0s1a, but boot2 >>doesn't know how to get at the amr device. At least not as far as I've >>tested. I'm leery of messing around in >>/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c, but if someone wants to give me >>some pointers, I'll try it. > > > This is new information ... the BIOS Int13 calls for the AMR may be doing > something evil. Is there updated firmware for that device available? I'm running the latest firmware available. The NetRAID's a pretty common card, and I haven't heard of anyone having similar problems under FreeBSD. Does boot2 treat /dev/da and /dev/ad different, or are they both accessed through INT13?