bootstrapping

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 21:13, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:55:54PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > gather there's no really working cvsup, and David's snapshot build from
> > way back is (a) from wayback (b) unstable under load.
>
> I'll start a new snapshot build now.  Can you wait 2 days?

I am, like, patience incarnate. 

> That will work fine (32-bit FreeBSD).  My FreeBSD/i386 5-CURRENT
> reference system is now an Athlon64, and is my fastest "i386" box now.

So I got a new board, discovered that the Zalman cooler didn't fit right and 
improvised with motherboard standoffs, and now it's time for me to start 
asking n00b questions again. My cvsup of -CURRENT is fetching src/sys/i4b 
now, it'll be a while before I'm ready to compile a kernel ...

In the meantime I'm still using David's previous snapshot build, with a 3Com 
3C905 for networking and an old 2G PATA HDD to start from.

I'm wondering about the promise fasttrack 378 RAID controller. I picked up one 
(1) SATA drive, and stuck it to the promise connectors. While the controller 
sees the drive on bootup, once the kernel boots (and reports ata[234] on 
atapci1) there's no devices there to speak of. Is this a normal phenomenon? A 
driver issue? Have I been a moron to think that a RAID controller can also 
act like a plain ata bus?

Well, it'll all come out in the wash, once the kernel builds. Only 16M of 
cvsup to go ..