Re: twa driver needs updating

I should note that these systems are all (a) floppy drive free and  
(b) standard IDE/ATA hard drive free (e.g.: booting from RAID) so  
everything I do has to be done with .iso -> CD-R burns or a usb flash  
drive.  If I'd been doing things with a floppy scenario it would  
likely have been easier...

In the end, the way I built an install CD was I used a Windows-only  
piece of software called UltraISO which allows you to edit .iso  
images and add/remove files.  I dropped the precompiled .ko driver  
into /boot/kernel/ on the downloadable Freebsd boot iso and then  
burned a custom boot CD with the right drivers on it.  When I boot  
from that CD, I load the driver and then continue with the  
installation.  It all works well from there.

On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> Great perspective here, thanks for taking the time to respond.  I
>> agree with you and believe that some attention should be put on the
>> hardware vendor driver side of things.  It was *such* a pain to get
>> to the point where I could even install Freebsd on these machines.
>> And 3Ware RAID controllers are pretty standard IMHO.
>>
>> I've upgraded to RELENG_6 from RELENG_6_2 but I'm not at the data
>> center and I cannot chance a reboot with the twa driver not working
>> for me and the machine not coming back up.
>
> It is quite trivial to modify the install disk if you have another
> FreeBSD machine handy to build the kernel. You can just drop in the
> module you want to /boot/kernel on the CD.
>
> Although I agree, it would be nice if you could more easily load  
> vendor
> drivers.. (ie if the module overrode the kernel code)
>
> -- 
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