Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:45:47 -0800 (PST) From: ctodd@chrismiller.com To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10, amd64, and raid Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.58L.0412291036440.10210@vp4.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <44acrxywq7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <Pine.BSI.4.58L.0412271918350.9248@vp4.netgate.net> <44acrxywq7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ctodd@chrismiller.com writes: > > > Has anyone gotten 4.x installed on this type of system? (ASUS A8V, > > Athlon64 3500+, Promise PDC20378 (AKA Fastrak 378, TX2000), and Marvell > > 88E8001 Gbe) If so, how did you align all the planets with the sun to > > accomplish this? 5.3/amd64 was a breeze, but I need 4.10 on this system as > > well. > > amd64 (even under i386 "platform") just isn't as well supported on 4.x > as on 5.x. There probably aren't many people with *any* experience > doing what you're trying. I've seen a number of people using amd 64 bit systems with 4.10, just not with raid. The i386 port seems to work just fine, unfortunately I need 4.10 due to some drivers that have not been ported to 5.x. > > Also, which file/pkg contains "base"? I could have gotten the system > > booted with that installed, all the man pages, docs, and most of the s* > > packages made it. At least with a booted system I could upgrade it. > > I don't understand what you're saying, but I'll nonetheless take a > guess that the answer is "base/base.??". That it might have been > named a little differently on 4.x; possibly "bin" instead of "base". I have narrowed the problem down to the 5.x kernel. I've been booting a 5.x cdrom because it sees the drives, then telling the installer to use 4.10 media. Apparently sysinstall is trying to look for 4.10 ported to amd64, not i386. I was able to confirm this by running sysinstall on the live 5.3 system (so that the Marvell Gbe worked with the patched driver) and point the installer to a local FTP server, it's definitely looking in the wrong directory and there is no amd64 port of 4.10. I was going to compile a new kernel to boot from, but I mounted the 4.10 iso and found the kernel already has the pst driver so the raid controller just doesn't appear to be supported under 4.10. This is a shame because the controller is not limited to 64 bit motherboards, or even to AMD. So I think the answer is that I have to use a PATA drive just for 4.10, or (gasp) run Fedora for this project. Chris
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