From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 25 8:26:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (mail2.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F376F37C57F for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 08:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.net) Received: from host-216-78-4-188.jan.bellsouth.net (host-216-78-4-188.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.4.188]) by mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id LAA00632; Thu, 25 May 2000 11:26:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:26:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0 drivers revisited In-Reply-To: <200005241953.e4OJr1r23466@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <392C1D76.45133616@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart writes: > > The sysctl code in rc IMO needs to be executed earlier. If one is > having problems reading from an ATA boot disk, e.g. cannot load init or > rc, these modes need to be set earlier. Why not a boot flag that sets > atamodes to be as conservative as possible, that could be set in > loader.conf. I see in the loader(8) man page that some sysctl > variables can be set in loader.conf. Can atamodes be set in > loader.conf? If not, maybe it should. Yes, this is it in a nutshell. All of the suggestions so far are good, but they come to late in the boot sequence to fix this problem. Jim Weeks --------- A mind is a terrible thing to lose! How I miss mine... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message