Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:23:01 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Fix for ServerWorks HT1000 in upcoming 7.1? Message-ID: <200810101323.02062.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20081010171117.GC24278@iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <520894aa0809301434h68b94628x54ec08fd48785feb@mail.gmail.com> <200810081700.55729.jhb@freebsd.org> <20081010171117.GC24278@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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On Friday 10 October 2008 01:11:17 pm Fernan Aguero wrote: > John, > > thanks for the tip. I have now successfully gone through > the process of making a new bootable CD using the ATA_HT1000 > patched kernel. > > I have already done a minimal installation of > FreeBSD-7.1-BETA onto the SC1435 PowerEdge box using this CD > (BTW dmesg now shows the ad4 disk being recognized as > SATA150 instead of giving a warning about a bad cable and > recognizing it as an ATA drive). > > But I'm stuck at the last step ... > > > Just be sure that once you've installed the box, > > you copy the updated kernel onto the box somehow before you > > reboot from the > > installer (you can use the fixit shell to help with this). > > I'm at the holographic emergency shell, and df(1) shows all > the partitions in ad4s1 mounted under /mnt. So my idea is to > cp boot/kernel/kernel /mnt/boot/kernel/ > but when I do an ls(1) the /mnt directory appears to be empty ... > > However I'm unable to umount it! > > My recollection: > $ df -h > /dev/ad4s1a => /mnt > /dev/ad4s1d => /mnt/tmp > /dev/ad4s1e => /mnt/usr > ... > $ ls /mnt/boot > boot: no such file or directory > $ ls /mnt/ > . .. > $ umount /mnt > device is busy > > I'm now downloading a 7.1-BETA-livefs ISO and I'll try next to boot > the box with this CD to see if I can scp the kernel from > another box ... but any other tip or suggestion is welcome. Hmmm, that is odd. I wonder if you are chroot'd into the drive somehow? That really shouldn't be though. -- John Baldwin
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