Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:41:53 -0800 (PST) From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/59896: trm driver is not in GENERIC Message-ID: <200312020841.hB28frb0019800@ip-colo-rtr0.ipinc.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200312020850.hB28oJ8M028244@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 59896 >Category: kern >Synopsis: trm driver is not in GENERIC >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 02 00:50:19 PST 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ted Mittelstaedt >Release: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Cool Dudes Inc. >Environment: System: FreeBSD ip-colo-rtr0.ipinc.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Sun Nov 9 00:51:04 PST 2003 root@ip-colo-rtr0.ipinc.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROUTER i386 >Description: The trm driver for the Tekram DC-395U SCSI adapter card is not in the GENERIC kernel, thus it is not possible to (easily) install FreeBSD on a system that uses this SCSI card to boot from. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: I guess that there are a number of other drivers that may be required in the install floppy for specific machines, and they are not there due to lack of space. (perhaps?) I would suggest that the FreeBSD release team consider releasing a total of 2 kern.flp floppy disk images. The first is the "normal" install image. The second is an alternate image that contains an alternate kernel, which carries the drivers that are missing from the main one. Most people would of course continue to use the normal kern.flp file to install FreeBSD from, and only people with "weird" hardware would use the alternate kernel. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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