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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
> > 
> > 
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