Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:26:58 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Problems Loading DP2 via FTP through de driver ... Message-ID: <XFMail.20021119142658.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021119150532.B19853-100000@hub.org>
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On 19-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> I've been running 4.x on my desktop for months now, with the de driver ...
> I've decided that since we're coming up on release, let's move up to it
> (yes, I know, its not perfect yet, but its only my desktop) ...
>
> First problem I hit was that my ethernet card wasn't detected ... from
> ftp'ng down the original files, I figured that the driver for it must be
> on the drivers.flp, but I couldn't find anywhere that detailed how to make
> use of it ... I finally figured out how to do it, after much
> trial-n-error, but could someone maybe document this in the README.txt
> file, or maybe have a 'Press [Space] to loaddriver from drivers.flp'
> message into the boot routine?
I think that we should use some magic to make this more intuitive.
That is, I think we should have the loader.rc in the mfsroot set a
variable 'booted_from="floppy"' and have the loader.rc on the CD
set it 'booted_from="cd"' and then have sysinstall pop up a dialog
asking the user if they want to insert the driver floppy if the
kernel env var booted_from is set to "floppy". Perhaps instead it
should be that the boot floppy on archs that support a drivers floppy
should add a 'driver_floppy="YES"' that sysinstall would go off of.
Hmm, I'll work on that. Well, here's the first step (untested):
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/release/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.729
diff -u -r1.729 Makefile
--- Makefile 15 Nov 2002 22:03:25 -0000 1.729
+++ Makefile 19 Nov 2002 19:25:35 -0000
@@ -1061,6 +1061,8 @@
.if ${TARGET_ARCH} != "ia64"
@echo "set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1" >> ${RD}/image.${FSIMAGE}/boot/loader.rc
.endif
+ @[ -r ${RD}/floppies/drivers.flp ] && \
+ echo "set driver_floppy=YES" >> ${RD}/image.${FSIMAGE}/boot/loader.rc
@echo "set module_path=\"/modules;/dist\"" >> ${RD}/image.${FSIMAGE}/boot/loader.rc
@echo "echo \\007\\007" >> ${RD}/image.${FSIMAGE}/boot/loader.rc
@echo "autoboot 10" >> ${RD}/image.${FSIMAGE}/boot/loader.rc
--
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