> >> > >>Vinod Kashyap wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Can you try booting off the installation CD/floppies and running > >>>sysinstall from there? > >>> > >> > >>Ok, I tried to boot from > >> 1) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/ twa.ko loaded (from 3ware.com) > >> 2) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/o twa.ko > >> 2) 5.2-CURRENT amd64 ISO from snapshots.se.freebsd.org > >> 3) My own 5.2-CURRENT iso > >> > > > > > > Try using whatever method you used to boot at the time of installing > > -CURRENT. > > > > I managed to get it to boot from CD with the -CURRENT snapshot (my > problem was the bootloader didn't seem to like the machine > having serial > console redirect on in the BIOS). Now I can successfully FDisk and > Disklabel the volume. When the installer tries to run newfs > it hangs. It > shows me the dialog (the Running newfs -U -O2 /dev/da0s1) in > the first > pty and in the 2nd (or 3rd?) pty it has the first few lines > of the newfs > output but never starts printing out the (inode?) numbers. > As I have written earlier to some mailing lists, twa has not been tested on amd64 as yet, and is not supported by 3ware. Since there seem to be quite a few people interested in amd64 support, I am trying to see what I can do about it. > Just to make sure my card isn't dud I installed RHEL and used > the 64bit > kernel module from 3ware.com and it works fine. > > Thanks for your help. > > Philip > > > >Received on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 21:27:55 UTC
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