Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:10:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/38518: combination of pr-27087 and pr-36911 (2) make 4.6-RC2 installation very hard Message-ID: <200205241710.g4OHAU420750@gracie.lbl.gov>
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>Number: 38518 >Category: conf >Synopsis: combination of pr-27087 and pr-36911 (2) make 4.6-RC2 installation very hard >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 24 10:20:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) >Release: FreeBSD 4.6-RC2 i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD 4.6-RC2 i386 additional peripherals: video card NetGear 620 or SysKonnect GigE NIC 3COM 509B 10BT NIC Symbios logic SCSI controller AC97 onboard sound card PS2 mouse >Description: pr-27087 causes GigE NIC not loaded. This has been fixed in current, but what not in 4.6? Since GigE cannot be used at this moment, ep0 (3COM 509B) has to be used. However, the only free irq is the 15 (ata1, which we do not use). But, pr-36911 (2) does not allow to disable ata1 at the boot time. At this point, this is no way to install 4.6 via NFS or FTP. If we just has one machine, we can deattach some peripherals and use different NIC. However, we have 30+ machines. changing or replacing all NICs is not a pleasure and possibly not a feasible task. >How-To-Repeat: Have all above peripherals hooked, and test 4.6-RC2 installation floppies to install 4.6-RC2 via NFS ot FTP. >Fix: Those should not be hard jobs. pr-27087 has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT. Disabling ata1 was working 4.5 or earlier. What has been changed? If this is intentional change, it should be documented. But I disagree with such change -- why ata1 must be configured if it is not used? >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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