Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:07:09 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: Zachary Drew <drew0054@tc.umn.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 4.0 on a "wd" machine Message-ID: <C1256906.005E0A9F.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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Hello,
I may have a clue : only ad devices are defined in "devices.c", therefore sysinstall
only probes ad-type drives
As a side note, in a 4.0-release, devices.c includes both block and raw devices
(ISTR that phk had suppressed the raw devices)
Could someone tell me how to patch devices.c and set the right parameters in the
device_names[] array fo devices.c ?
TfH
Zachary Drew <drew0054@tc.umn.edu> on 22/06/2000 18:50:27
To: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL@ALCATEL
cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: installing 4.0 on a "wd" machine
If your using 4.0-STABLE your fstab need to be updated to use the "ad"
driver as reverse compatibility for the "wd" driver was recently removed.
/etc/fstab :
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
Pass#
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install 4.0 on an ancient machine.
>
> this machine is a VLB 486 PC, with a caching Tekram DC680C IDE controller.
>
> The controller probes fine with "wd" driver, both in 3.4 and 4.0 with a kernel
> recompiled with wdc and wd instaed of the new ata driver (see 3.4 dmesg further)
>
> I have recompiled a new 4.0 kernel on a working 4.0 PC. This kernel has a
> driver for wdc, wdc and mcd, used for the CD-ROM.
>
> The boot floppy boots fine on both a "known working" 4.0 PC and the VLB PC.
>
> The problem is that /stand/sysinstall does not find the wd drives (it complains :
> "no disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being probed at boot
> time ..." in the second window after selecting a Novice install)
>
> How may I install 4.0 on this PC ? (upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 with the sources is
> not really an option as the disks are a bit small)
>
> TIA
>
> TfH
>
>
>
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