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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:49:57 -0600
From:      Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>
To:        Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Asus A7V and booting FreeBSD 4.2R from the onboard Promise ATA-100 controller
Message-ID:  <3A34CD75.8000502@planetwe.com>
References:  <0012110255191K.09615@smp.kyx.net>

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This didn't require any magic on my part - once I got my NIC and 
parralel port to stop fighting over the same IRQ. Before that it would 
hang right after the parralel port was detected. There was never an 
issue about loading the root partition. What sort of drive do you have?

Dragos Ruiu wrote:

> Has anyone successfully done this? Can you enlighten me
> about the appropriate magic....  ???
> 
> I found the old PR about the ASUS A7V and it seems to have been fixed in
> 4.2R....  The install works fine... the drivers find the controller... the
> install seems to work on the new disks hanging of the ATA100.
> The boot loader finds the kernel on ad4 and then it craps out saying it
> can't load the root partition....
> 
> Any pointers?
> 
> I'll try moving the root partition disk to the ordinary IDE tomorrow but this
> seems like a waste of a good fast disk...
> 
> thanks,
> --dr
> 
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