I'm trying to install 4.0-RELEASE on a COMPAQ Proliant 1850R
with the root disk on a SMART-2SL raid controller. The install
works perfectly, but boot/loader fails to load the kernel.
Booting "kernel" fails with 'Don't know how to load module
"/kernel"', and boot kernel.GENERIC fails
Jonathan Lemon wrote:
For now, you could remove the IDE devices from the config file,
until this gets fixed. Ideally, the boot blocks/loader should be
taught to boot from something other than wd() or da().
Alas, the loader uses BIOS to read the disk. Anything the BIOS can
read, so can the
After doing a cvsup yesterday evening i can't seem to boot on my
raid cotroller using the same kernel config.
Is -current probing hardware i a different way now or ??
This is a consequence of a defect in the way that the ida driver works,
and new code which resorts the disk drivers (so
I don't know who is maintaining the id driver, but it looks to
me like it isn't able to co-exist with the wd driver (because
it "steals" the wd drivers cdevsw entry)
Poul-Henning
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] w
rites:
After doing a cvsup yesterday evening i can't seem to boot
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you
write:
After doing a cvsup yesterday evening i can't seem to boot on my
raid cotroller using the same kernel config.
Is -current probing hardware i a different way now or ??
It appears so. The IDA driver needs to stomp on the WD
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
On Sep 09, 1999 at 01:26:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Lemon writes:
: 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.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes:
phk's fla driver mount / correctly when it is the boot device.
However, the boot loader does have some interesting limitations in
this area last time I checked. Likely it was due to using the -stable
version for most of my testing.
I actually
