From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 21 13: 2:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles519.castles.com [208.214.165.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AD314E67 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03767; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:52:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911212052.MAA03767@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing onto ami mega raid. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 02:39:26 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:52:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I spent about 2 to 3 hours last night futzing with sysinstall and > getting the amr.ko file onto the 4.0 install disk (using the > 4.0-19991114 SNAP) I tried adding the amr disks to devices.c in > sysinstall but had no luck. Bah. I knew I forgot something there. That should just about have done it. > After booting the install disks and loading the amr kld (the probe > messages showed that it was detected) I escaped to the prompt > (alt+f4). I saw that the amrd0 /dev/ entries had been created, > but attempts to access them gave "unit 0 not available" (as far as > i remeber) That's not an error message that the driver can produce. It'd be helpful to know what it actually said, and whether you have actually created an array yet. > What exactly needs to be done to get 4.0 installed with a amr disk > as root? Sysinstall needs the patch you supplied; apart from that I'm not aware of anything else. I haven't, obviously, had time to work on this yet. A better diagnostic from you above would save me at least one release build... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message