Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:46:58 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd@osterskov.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Compaq SMART-2SL array controller Message-ID: <19990923144658.29434@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199909231926.NAA42815@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sep 09, 1999 at 01:26:35PM -0600 References: <199909231707.MAA21789@free.pcs> <199909231926.NAA42815@harmony.village.org>
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On Sep 09, 1999 at 01:26:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909231707.MAA21789@free.pcs> Jonathan Lemon writes: > : It appears so. The IDA driver needs to stomp on the WD driver's > : vectors in order to boot off of the RAID controller. It seems that > : something changed so that wd is getting probed after the ida driver > : now, and removing the vectors. > > Is this so that it could mount root? In 3.x the only way to do this > is to have a special disk label type. I've hacked things to get fla > bootable on -stable using this method. The sysinstall program hasn't > been updated, however. Yes. The IDA driver will be happy with it's own device nodes (/dev/ida....), but last time I checked, the boot/loader would only understand root devices of wd() or da(). I understand that Soren's ad() driver has the same problem. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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