freebsd boot disk

Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Wed Sep 9 12:48:49 PDT 1998


Several people suggested that I try a freebsd boot disk to see if
its current development driver will boot my recalcitrant PowerEdge
2300's and reset their onboard aic7890's to a sane state.
Unfortunately, visiting the freebsd site and looking at the supported
hardware in their downloadable boot floppy image, it doesn't appear that
the 7890 is supported (unless there is a perfectly reasonable lag
between the image being upgraded and the documentation being
upgraded:-).

I have no idea how to go about building a freebsd boot floppy from
current cam/aic7xx sources.  Could any freebsd'rs with a current
development image please post a URL?  I am curious as to whether or not
it will unstick my stuck devices...

Thanks,

    rgb

Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu




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