From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 11 11:46:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E0814F01 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id LAA29358; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:46:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id LAA15718; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:46:09 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id OAA16463; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:46:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14177.22897.138261.369110@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:46:09 -0700 (MST) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the CD driver supposed to attach() now regardless of media? In-Reply-To: <75485.929125556@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <14177.13953.82252.18827@hip186.ch.intel.com> <75485.929125556@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Friday, June 11, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: ] > One thing which also confuses some people is that sysinstall attempts > to mount the CD itself - it doesn't like it if you've already got the > CD mounted someplace else; it *must not* be mounted before you run > sysinstall or you'll wind up with an attempted double-mount situation. > > - Jordan Yup. Figured that one out years ago by emperical analysis ;-) However, this was running sysinstall from the kern/mfsroot floppy boot process with no media in the drives at probe time. If you have media in the drives at probe time, then sysinstall is happy. If you don't have media at probe time (but DO have the media in the drive well ahead of chosing the "media" option within sysinstall), Kenneth was saying that the drivers still attach() but then sysinstall is confused. I'll try the process(es) tonight on my other machine (different Toshiba CD-ROM and different Adaptec controller in radically older machine) to see if the same behavior is seen or if it's just some bizzare combo of my hardware, BIOS, phase of the moon, etc. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message