Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:02:11 +0100 From: Aernoudt Bottemanne <bottemanne@capitolonline.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom and zip (both ide) problem Message-ID: <380B60A3.F742EBBF@capitolonline.nl> References: <14346.31193.248797.237477@grits.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910171902490.77636-100000@beppo.feral.com> <14347.6330.820928.627692@grits.cs.duke.edu> <380B50F8.4335FDB5@capitolonline.nl> <14347.17444.883642.500165@grits.cs.duke.edu>
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Hi Andrew, So it should work in 3.x current or 4.0 current ? Unfortunately every time after I install FreeBSD it does not boot at all..... The error message = "Kernel stack not valid" I had hoped to get the ide CD working, because I have to install over and over.... Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Aernoudt Bottemanne writes: > > Hi, > > > > During system installation FreeBSD can not find the cdrom device (nor the zip > > drive). > > The srm console does have the devices (and for example I can upgrade the firmware > > from > > the ide cdrom drive....) > > Any suggestions on how to fix this ? > > > > Thanks, > > Aernoudt > > > > Great. Answer enough questions & people start mailing right to > you... ;-) > > Ide on alpha requires the new ata driver. > > In 4.0, we don't consider the ata driver mature enough to include in a > GENERIC or installation kernel. Also, an install to an ide disk has > never been tested (to the best of my knowledge). Once you install the > system, you can re-build your kernel with the options: > > # ATA and ATAPI devices > # This is work in progress, use at your own risk. > # It currently reuses the majors of wd.c and friends. > # It cannot co-exist with the old system in one kernel. > # You only need one "controller ata0" for it to find all > # PCI devices on modern machines. > controller ata0 > device atadisk0 # ATA disk drives > device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM drives > device atapifd0 # ATAPI floppy drives > device atapist0 # ATAPI tape drives > > The kernel should then see your IDE devices. > > If you want to use -stable, you can give up now. IDE devices will not > work on alpha in 3.x w/o signifigant effort. > > Drew > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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