Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:03:01 -0800 (PST) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: Mars Trading <marstrade@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?! Message-ID: <20050328080301.79347.qmail@web54010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- Mars Trading <marstrade@gmail.com> wrote: > Rob, > > I think you may be on to something here. Not that > I'm an expert, BTW. > If I remember correctly, 4.11 doesn't use > device.hints; > device irq's and stuff were all included in the > kernel configuration. > > This is no longer the case with 5.x which uses > /boot/device.hints to tell where attached devices > are. But how does one edit device.hints on a > boot cd? I found a webpage: http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=4&topic=acd which mentions a bit about syscontrols, that might be relevant to my problem. So I hope this can be solved with 5.3 by setting the proper hints/syscontrols as loader settings before the kernel is loaded. But I'm don't know whether the 5.3 install process allows me doing this. How can I modify the install process and which hints/controls should I modify? I hope someone here on the list has some good ideas :). BTW: I'm not booting from CD, but from the three floppies, followed by a network install; but that shouldn't matter. Regards, Rob. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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