From bob@imlpld1.berkeley.edu Sun Feb 8 22:17:50 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93BF16A4CE for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from imlpld1.berkeley.edu (imlpld1.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.201.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808C643D2F for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@imlpld1.berkeley.edu) Received: (from bob@localhost) by imlpld1.berkeley.edu (8.11.5/8.11.1) id i195TX312436; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 21:29:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob) Message-Id: <200402090529.i195TX312436@imlpld1.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 21:29:33 -0800 (PST) From: bob prohaska Reply-To: bob prohaska To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: device.hints are not honored in 5.2.1-RC X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 X-GNATS-Notify: >Number: 62565 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: device.hints are not honored in 5.2.1-RC >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: remko >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 08 22:20:14 PST 2004 >Closed-Date: Sun Sep 03 22:42:23 GMT 2006 >Last-Modified: Sun Sep 03 22:42:23 GMT 2006 >Originator: bob prohaska >Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC >Organization: University of California, Berkeley >Environment: 486 cpu, 1542b, ne2000, 20 megs RAM >Description: The target host is a 486-33 with Adaptec 1542b scsi adapter, ne2000 ethernet adapter and generic 1440 floppy drive. All worked well enough to install FreeBSD 5.1 with the gymnastics described here: http://imlpld1.berkeley.edu/~bob/FreeBSD/ On booting the 5.2.1-RC floppies (fdformatted first, all md5 sums are correct) written on the boot drive the usual prompts are presented and the loader prompt invites device.hints: those are set hint.aha.0.disabled=0 set hint.ed.0.disabled=0 set hint.ed.0.port=0x300 set hint.ed.0.irq=5 The changes are reflected (and unaffected by double quotes) in the "show" command, but a "boot" command does not probe aha0 nor ed0, ending with the: mountroot> prompt which accepts ufs:md0a as a reply. /stand/sysintall starts up, with a flock of errors related to failed module loads and an invitation to use the driver floppy. The sysinstall Main Menu comes up, but with no disks nor ethernet adapters found it's a fruitless venture. >How-To-Repeat: Try to reinstall again. >Fix: None at this time. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: remko State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 22:35:39 UTC 2006 State-Changed-Why: Jikes, it seems that we are facing older hardware. Can you tell me whether this device.hints problem persists in more recent FreeBSD hardware? Thanks! Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->remko Responsible-Changed-By: remko Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 22:35:39 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: Grab the PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62565 State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed State-Changed-By: remko State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 22:42:01 UTC 2006 State-Changed-Why: The submitters email address is no longer reachable, close the PR accordingly. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62565 >Unformatted: