Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:52:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing onto ami mega raid. Message-ID: <199911212052.MAA03767@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 02:39:26 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911150222340.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> > I spent about 2 to 3 hours last night futzing with sysinstall and > getting the amr.ko file onto the 4.0 install disk (using the > 4.0-19991114 SNAP) I tried adding the amr disks to devices.c in > sysinstall but had no luck. Bah. I knew I forgot something there. That should just about have done it. > After booting the install disks and loading the amr kld (the probe > messages showed that it was detected) I escaped to the prompt > (alt+f4). I saw that the amrd0 /dev/ entries had been created, > but attempts to access them gave "unit 0 not available" (as far as > i remeber) That's not an error message that the driver can produce. It'd be helpful to know what it actually said, and whether you have actually created an array yet. > What exactly needs to be done to get 4.0 installed with a amr disk > as root? Sysinstall needs the patch you supplied; apart from that I'm not aware of anything else. I haven't, obviously, had time to work on this yet. A better diagnostic from you above would save me at least one release build... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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