Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:05:51 -0800 From: "Jin Guojun [VFFS]" <jin@george.lbl.gov> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/36911: [sysinstall] installation floppies miss autoload file (5.0-DP1) Message-ID: <479D62AF.7010408@george.lbl.gov> In-Reply-To: <200801251713.m0PHDWgg074607@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200801251713.m0PHDWgg074607@freefall.freebsd.org>
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rwatson@FreeBSD.org wrote: >Synopsis: [sysinstall] installation floppies miss autoload file (5.0-DP1) > >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >State-Changed-By: rwatson >State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 25 17:12:36 UTC 2008 >State-Changed-Why: >Sorry for the very long time it has taken someone to look at this bug >report. Could you confirm whether this problem occurs with a recent >FreeBSD releases, such as 6.3-RELEASE or 7.0-RC1? Otherwise we'll >close it as 5.0 is an increasingly long time ago. Thanks! > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=36911 > > ata1 still cannot be disabled in 6.3-Release. Not tested in 7.0-RC1 yet. It does not matter if adding hint.ata.1.disabled=1 in /boot/device.hints or setting this variable at boot time, ata1 will still configured. Is possible completely disable ata device? If so, then we can close this case. If not, then I will provide a suggestion. The reason to disable ATA is becasue if I use only SCSI or USB, there is not need to have ATA module in kernel to take memory space, -Jin
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