From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 13:11:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE8116A40F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark.r.cullen@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EB243D53 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:11:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.r.cullen@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1726924uge for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:11:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=V/Hf3zLPVIyF5bXktqsSoAbj7k5LdkvHUmWWylv2UYi742t4pWDdZ+6sNR5ZVIiBI3vtE5UEvp1MVP83UtRXEuGQia46lhfLO33euHafYhbhnVshMGBU3XZWYPbbWkmEeirJc0X+3XaEfzyL12ZM4nVOBZkdrs6r83C5P63FmUg= Received: by 10.65.239.13 with SMTP id q13mr3590571qbr; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.242? ( [88.96.18.86]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f16sm1852037qba.2006.09.12.06.11.28; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4506B215.7030104@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:11:49 +0100 From: Mark Cullen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Phipps References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4x Kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:11:32 -0000 Keith Phipps wrote: > Good Day, > > We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but > it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance > it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. > The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no problem. > Best I can tell, 6.1 has the proper ATA driver. ICH7 is what I'm looking > for. > > The build of our boxes are ISO'd on a CD, so I'm wondering the best way to > get this done - as I've never had to recompile anything and the more and > more I'm reading, the more and more it looks like I'm going to have to > > a) figure out where/how to pull the ICH7 ATA driver from the 6.1 build > b) how I can recompile the kernel that goes with the ISO > > It'd be easy (so google says) if it were anything other than the drive > controller - but since I can get to the drive, I can't load the OS > properly, > can't just replace the kernel that way. > > Any and all ideas, resources, etc.. would be helpful, as this was just sort > of dropped on my plate. > > Thanks! > > -Keith > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Is there any particular reason why you can't just use 6.1? I know it's probably not what you want to hear, but it's highly likely it's going to be said if I don't anyway :-) If it's because of stability, you *could* give NetBSD or OpenBSD a try perhaps? I had even 4.x panic'ing and locking up on my machine, where NetBSD 3 is totally stable. I *think* NetBSD 3 supports ICH7 at least. -- Mark Cullen BSc (Hons), Computer Science