From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 21:47:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EE6637B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 72233 invoked by uid 100); 16 Mar 2001 05:47:33 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15025.43252.892357.838080@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:47:32 -0600 To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-R installer bombs because I can't turn UDMA off... In-Reply-To: <20010315211635.03666@hydrogen.funkthat.com> References: <90398345@toto.iv> <15025.32595.37743.216651@guru.mired.org> <20010315211635.03666@hydrogen.funkthat.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John-Mark Gurney types: > Mike Meyer scribbled this message on Mar 15: > > [I'm sorry if this has already been covered] > > John-Mark Gurney types: > > > and I should have a choice to be able to fall back to PIO mode... hell, > > > I'd be happy with 3.3mb/sec PIO mode if it worked relibably... guess > > > it was a bad decision to finally declare ata a fit replacement for > > > wdc... > > You can. Read the ata man page (on the web site, if you have to): The > > [...] > > If you can get to the point of launching the emergency holographic > > shell, you *ought* to be able to turn that on, and continue with the > > install. > I did read the man page before posting, but it doesn't do me much > good if I can't get to a point of running sysctl.. > > that's a good option if the fixit.flp contained a copy of sysctl, but > it doesn't, so it's quite hard when you don't have a copy of sysctl, > I guess I *COULD* manually mount the cdrom, and extract out sysctl > from the bin dist, but how the hell is Joe Newbie suppose to know how > to do all of this?? Um - if you can mount the CDROM, you should be able to get to the fixit cdrom as easily as you get to the fixit floppy. And yes, it'd be a lot easier if we could get hardware vendors to install FreeBSD instead of Windows, but I wouldn't hold your breath. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message