amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0

[Fernan Aguero]

> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 03:10:03 pm Fernan Aguero wrote:
> >  atapci0: <ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 controller> port 
> 0xecb0-0xecb7,0xeca0-0xeca3,0xecb8-0xecbf,0xeca4-0xeca7,0xece0-0xecef mem 
> 0xefdfe000-0xefdfffff irq 6 at device 14.0 on pci3
> >  atapci0: [ITHREAD]
> 
> This chipset has had some issues.  Try this:
 
> Index: ata-chipset.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.202.2.7
> diff -u -r1.202.2.7 ata-chipset.c
> --- ata-chipset.c	1 Apr 2008 15:20:49 -0000	1.202.2.7
> +++ ata-chipset.c	22 Apr 2008 19:30:50 -0000
[snipped]

Thanks for the patch.

I will try it. But it'll have to wait a few days. Right now I have
this box running Ubuntu (I need to run it as a backup mysql
server for a few days while we do maintainance on the other
server).

So the plans, as it stands, are:

* install 6.x (tried 6.1-RELEASE succesfully)
* patch ata-chipeset.c in FreeBSD-7.0 sources
* do the source upgrade to 7.0
* report back on failure/success

BTW, are the instructions on 
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-6x-7x.txt
essentially right? Or are there any corrections or
recommendations to upgrade a fresh, minimal install of 6.x
to 7.x? (e.g. do I need to use rse's freebsd-adm kit to do
the upgrade? I've noticed that basically it runs cvsup +
build world et al.)

Thanks again for all the help,

Fernan