4x Kernel

[Mark Cullen]

Keith Phipps wrote:
> Good Day,
> 
> We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but
> it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance
> it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID.
> The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no problem.
> Best I can tell, 6.1 has the proper ATA driver. ICH7 is what I'm looking
> for.
> 
> The build of our boxes are ISO'd on a CD, so I'm wondering the best way to
> get this done - as I've never had to recompile anything and the more and
> more I'm reading, the more and more it looks like I'm going to have to
> 
> a) figure out where/how to pull the ICH7 ATA driver from the 6.1 build
> b) how I can recompile the kernel that goes with the ISO
> 
> It'd be easy (so google says) if it were anything other than the drive
> controller - but since I can get to the drive, I can't load the OS 
> properly,
> can't just replace the kernel that way.
> 
> Any and all ideas, resources, etc.. would be helpful, as this was just sort
> of dropped on my plate.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Keith
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Is there any particular reason why you can't just use 6.1? I know it's 
probably not what you want to hear, but it's highly likely it's going to 
be said if I don't anyway :-)

If it's because of stability, you *could* give NetBSD or OpenBSD a try 
perhaps? I had even 4.x panic'ing and locking up on my machine, where 
NetBSD 3 is totally stable. I *think* NetBSD 3 supports ICH7 at least.

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Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen at gmail.com>
BSc (Hons), Computer Science