From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 6:35:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-5-249.zoominternet.net [24.154.5.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FA137B446 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28489; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:38:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:38:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: Michael Matsumura Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller Card In-Reply-To: <20000825230509.A580@jupiter.limit.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Michael Matsumura wrote: > I just installed a Promise Ultra66 controller card, and...its not > working... the card's BIOS booted up and detected my two hard drives...but > the boot loader spit out the following: > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > unable to load kernel: > Aborted > > [root:~]# uname -a > FreeBSD jupiter.limit.org 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 25 > 21:35:53 PDT 2000 root@jupiter.limit.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/JUPITER > i386 > > > I've tried disabling the on-board IDE controller, but to no avail... :\ > Yes, I'm using an 80-wire IDE cable and it boots up fine without the > Promise controller... > > Suggestions are more than welcome, thanks :) Have you d/l'd the latest Promise card firmware? I did that under Win2K before booting the system under FreeBSD, and it now works fine. My -STABLE system was last built about three days before yours, FYI. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message