Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:45:39 -0500 From: "Brian J. Kirk" <kirk@primuul.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd 5.0 on hp netserver lf Message-ID: <20030321224539.GC38273@primuul.com>
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Folks, I posted a question earlier on freebsd-questions concerning this, and have since discovered a bit more. Sorry about the cross posting. I'm trying to get 5.0 running on an old hp netserver lf. quoting some random website: "How come FreeBSD does not detect my HP Netserver's SCSI controller? This is basically a known problem. The EISA on-board SCSI controller in the HP Netserver machines occupies EISA slot number 11, so all the "true" EISA slots are in front of it. Alas, the address space for EISA slots >= 10 collides with the address space assigned to PCI, and FreeBSD's auto-configuration currently cannot handle this situation very well. So now, the best you can do is to pretend there is no address range clash :), by bumping the kernel option EISA_SLOTS to a value of 12... Of course, this does present you with a chicken-and-egg problem when installing on such a machine. In order to work around this problem, a special hack is available inside UserConfig. Do not use the "visual" interface, but +the plain command-line interface there. Simply type eisa 12 quit at the prompt, and install your system as usual. While it is recommended you compile and install a custom kernel anyway." The above quoted instructions worked fine when booting with 4.7 floppies, but 5.0 seems to lack the option to boot into UserConfig with a "boot -c" command. Looking at the device.hints options, which seem to be replacing the UserConfig command, I don't see anything listed for eisa slots. With 5.0's boot loader, I've used set EISA_SLOTS=12 set EISA=12 but the dmesg and installer still don't list the scsi controller, and hence no drives. Interestingly, an "lsdev" at the boot prompt correctly lists the floppy and two drives, including the partition information. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Brian -- Brian Kirk primuul.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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