From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 12 1: 1:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 01:01:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.kyx.net (unknown [216.232.16.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C3F37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from smp.kyx.net (unknown [10.22.22.45]) by mail.kyx.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1AB1DC08; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:02:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: Drew Sanford Subject: Re: Asus A7V and booting FreeBSD 4.2R from the onboard Promise ATA-100 controller Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:00:17 -0800 X-Mailer: KYX-CP/M [version core00-mail-92] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <0012110255191K.09615@smp.kyx.net> <3A34CD75.8000502@planetwe.com> In-Reply-To: <3A34CD75.8000502@planetwe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0012120101321S.09615@smp.kyx.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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