Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:33:51 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing onto ami mega raid. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911211330210.4200-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <199911212052.MAA03767@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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... Unfortunatly all the amr systems I have are now in production, I can not test a new install on them. The way I did manage to do the install was nfs mounting another machine's /, /usr, and /var then using dump/restore to init the system over a hand done disklabel on the amr (disklabel, not sysinstall). I'm sorry. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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