Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
--- Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. On a related note, sysinstall often errors out while trying to read from the CD-ROM (with FreeBSD disk in it). When read errors occur, sysinstal behaves erratically. You never know what will be displayed or how it will handle the situation (sometimes it looks like it aborted, but when you press Enter, it goes ahead with the install). BTW, this is in FreeBSD 6.2. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. No luck. I've rescanned time after time, and get nothing. No sloppy devices show up in dmesg, cannot use mount_msdosfs to access the floppy, etc. This is truly, truly frustrating, as I am trying to follow THESE instructions: http://3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14850 I've even tried installing to an external (non-raid) drive in an attempt to use that drive as a really big floppy. The boot loader doesn't know how to see the BSD partition on it, and apparently can only see raw bios drives. Another possible approach was to try and boot from the single drive and then use sysinstall to install onto the RAID array, but I've had issues with that before. As an aside, the module HAS to be loaded before the boot process, so I can't use kldload to load the module from a fixit floppy or something like that. My workaround at the moment is that I am downloading a snapshot ISO of -STABLE It might be nice if the loading modules from floppy procedure (while rarely required) was better documented. -Dan -- It's three o'clock in the morning. It's too late for 'oops'. After Locate Updates, don't even go there. -Paul Baecker January 3, 2k Indeed, sometime after 3AM Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. No luck. I've rescanned time after time, and get nothing. No sloppy devices show up in dmesg, cannot use mount_msdosfs to access the floppy, etc. This is truly, truly frustrating, as I am trying to follow THESE instructions: http://3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14850 I've even tried installing to an external (non-raid) drive in an attempt to use that drive as a really big floppy. The boot loader doesn't know how to see the BSD partition on it, and apparently can only see raw bios drives. Another possible approach was to try and boot from the single drive and then use sysinstall to install onto the RAID array, but I've had issues with that before. As an aside, the module HAS to be loaded before the boot process, so I can't use kldload to load the module from a fixit floppy or something like that. My workaround at the moment is that I am downloading a snapshot ISO of -STABLE It might be nice if the loading modules from floppy procedure (while rarely required) was better documented. -Dan -- It's three o'clock in the morning. It's too late for 'oops'. After Locate Updates, don't even go there. -Paul Baecker January 3, 2k Indeed, sometime after 3AM Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. I've found the floppy works okay when I escape to the bootloader, so I can load my KLD at that time. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. I'll be sure to try that, thanks. Any idea why it's not found initially, tho? I mean, the CONTROLLER is found, so... Is this the type of thing I should send-pr over? -Dan -- Be happy. Try not to hurt each other. Hope you fall in love. --Mallory, Family Ties Finale (on the meaning of life) Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not sure why this happens myself. I have also noticed that when I try to transfer a few files from floppy (during install my install.cfg mounts the floppy and copies a few custom scripts) the transfer is very slow, even by floppy disk speed standards. I haven't worried too much about it because I so seldom use floppies any more, and plan on getting a better install gameplan (PXE ?) if I install more than a few systems. Might be worth checking or filing a PR. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I'm getting the message when I try to load a KLD in Sysinstall, even though I KNOW my floppy drive works. In fact, I can load the KLD from the loader prompt just fine. Is there a difference/advantage to one way of doing this over the other? -Dan Mahoney -- Hitler, Satan, those Hanson kids, anything. Just not the curious anteater. -Peter Scolari, as Wayne Szalinki in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids--The Series Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. I've found the floppy works okay when I escape to the bootloader, so I can load my KLD at that time. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. I'll be sure to try that, thanks. Any idea why it's not found initially, tho? I mean, the CONTROLLER is found, so... Is this the type of thing I should send-pr over? -Dan -- Be happy. Try not to hurt each other. Hope you fall in love. --Mallory, Family Ties Finale (on the meaning of life) Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
Hey all, I'm getting the message when I try to load a KLD in Sysinstall, even though I KNOW my floppy drive works. In fact, I can load the KLD from the loader prompt just fine. Is there a difference/advantage to one way of doing this over the other? -Dan Mahoney -- Hitler, Satan, those Hanson kids, anything. Just not the curious anteater. -Peter Scolari, as Wayne Szalinki in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids--The Series Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
