From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 22 9:50:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mhub3.tc.umn.edu (mhub3.tc.umn.edu [128.101.131.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE9737C3A1 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew0054@tc.umn.edu) Received: from garnet.tc.umn.edu by mhub3.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:50:27 -0500 Received: from localhost by garnet.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:50:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:50:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Zachary Drew To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 4.0 on a "wd" machine In-Reply-To: Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If your using 4.0-STABLE your fstab need to be updated to use the "ad" driver as reverse compatibility for the "wd" driver was recently removed. /etc/fstab : # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to install 4.0 on an ancient machine. > > this machine is a VLB 486 PC, with a caching Tekram DC680C IDE controller. > > The controller probes fine with "wd" driver, both in 3.4 and 4.0 with a kernel > recompiled with wdc and wd instaed of the new ata driver (see 3.4 dmesg further) > > I have recompiled a new 4.0 kernel on a working 4.0 PC. This kernel has a > driver for wdc, wdc and mcd, used for the CD-ROM. > > The boot floppy boots fine on both a "known working" 4.0 PC and the VLB PC. > > The problem is that /stand/sysinstall does not find the wd drives (it complains : > "no disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being probed at boot > time ..." in the second window after selecting a Novice install) > > How may I install 4.0 on this PC ? (upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 with the sources is > not really an option as the disks are a bit small) > > TIA > > TfH > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message