Re: no root fs in CURRENT kernel

Hi,

I'm sorry but the patches have no effect on my system. After rebuilding the 
kernel and rebooting I get the same error messages.

Best regards,

Michael


>From: Søren Schmidt <sos_at_DeepCore.dk>
>To: Michael Luetz <miluetz_at_hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: no root fs in CURRENT kernel
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:29:31 +0200
>
>Michael Luetz wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>today's (Apr 19th) CURRENT can't find the root fs anymore
>
>Thats because of the PCI code changes, it does not properly handle the 
>BAR's on ATA controllers (they are special and an exception of the worser 
>kind :) )
>
>I have two patches that solves this is different ways (both attached 
>below). The first one just makes the PCI code aware of the specialness of 
>the ATA BAR's and takes the right action on it. The second one is not 
>really for mass consumption yet, as it will try to use you ATA controller 
>in "native PCI" mode if its possible. This hasn't been tested much yet, and 
>I sure there are HW out there that breaks with this, but it would be 
>interesting to gain more knowledge on it by getting it tested especially on 
>platforms thats broken with the current code.
>
>--
>-Søren
>

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