From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 22 10: 7:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FBF37B642 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:07:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id TAA29225; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:06:45 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id TAA26383; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:05:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C1256906.005E0B77 ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:07:13 +0200 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: Zachary Drew Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:07:09 +0200 Subject: Re: installing 4.0 on a "wd" machine Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I may have a clue : only ad devices are defined in "devices.c", therefore sysinstall only probes ad-type drives As a side note, in a 4.0-release, devices.c includes both block and raw devices (ISTR that phk had suppressed the raw devices) Could someone tell me how to patch devices.c and set the right parameters in the device_names[] array fo devices.c ? TfH Zachary Drew on 22/06/2000 18:50:27 To: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL@ALCATEL cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 4.0 on a "wd" machine 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