Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:37:03 -0500 From: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: hacking installation... Message-ID: <3ABB89BF.F75D3775@gactr.uga.edu>
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I've got a 486 machine with some peculiar hardware that the default kernel from the install floppy won't detect, namely the scsi (aic driver). In the past I've simply built a kernel on another box and replaced the kernel on the install floppy with that one and all was fine (had to again again boot off floppy and use the live filesystem CD in order to mount the harddisk and copy the working kernel from the hacked install floppy). The machine I'm using to build my custom kernel is FreeBSD-4.3RC cvs'ed from this morning. Here's the snippet from my kernel config: options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MFS_ROOT options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=5000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev However, using this kernel, the installer fails to load claiming I have no kernel support for mfs as a root device. What am I doing wrong? Or, is there an easier way for me to install this 486 that doesn't require me going about the hacked install method (the problem is that the aic driver expects/detects the chip to be at IRQ 12 but it is at 11). -- ------------------------------------ Robin P. Blanchard IT Program Specialist Georgia Center for Continuing Ed. fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 email: Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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