From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 18:00:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E1B1065691 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3858FC0A for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [IPv6:::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9AI0bfA079640; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Fernan Aguero Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:23:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <520894aa0809301434h68b94628x54ec08fd48785feb@mail.gmail.com> <200810081700.55729.jhb@freebsd.org> <20081010171117.GC24278@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <20081010171117.GC24278@iib.unsam.edu.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810101323.02062.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [IPv6:::1]); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/8407/Fri Oct 10 11:10:59 2008 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Fix for ServerWorks HT1000 in upcoming 7.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:48 -0000 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