Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:00:17 -0800 From: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A7V and booting FreeBSD 4.2R from the onboard Promise ATA-100 controller Message-ID: <0012120101321S.09615@smp.kyx.net> In-Reply-To: <3A34CD75.8000502@planetwe.com> References: <0012110255191K.09615@smp.kyx.net> <3A34CD75.8000502@planetwe.com>
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Uhm... it's a pretty newfangled maxtor 64Mb drive. Hmmm... never considered if that could be the issue.... I'll try swapping drives too... sigh. Cheers, --dr On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Drew Sanford wrote: > 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 -- Dragos Ruiu <dr@dursec.com> dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future gpg/pgp key on file at wwwkeys.pgp.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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