On Friday 10 October 2008 01:11:17 pm Fernan Aguero wrote: > John, > > thanks for the tip. I have now successfully gone through > the process of making a new bootable CD using the ATA_HT1000 > patched kernel. > > I have already done a minimal installation of > FreeBSD-7.1-BETA onto the SC1435 PowerEdge box using this CD > (BTW dmesg now shows the ad4 disk being recognized as > SATA150 instead of giving a warning about a bad cable and > recognizing it as an ATA drive). > > But I'm stuck at the last step ... > > > Just be sure that once you've installed the box, > > you copy the updated kernel onto the box somehow before you > > reboot from the > > installer (you can use the fixit shell to help with this). > > I'm at the holographic emergency shell, and df(1) shows all > the partitions in ad4s1 mounted under /mnt. So my idea is to > cp boot/kernel/kernel /mnt/boot/kernel/ > but when I do an ls(1) the /mnt directory appears to be empty ... > > However I'm unable to umount it! > > My recollection: > $ df -h > /dev/ad4s1a => /mnt > /dev/ad4s1d => /mnt/tmp > /dev/ad4s1e => /mnt/usr > ... > $ ls /mnt/boot > boot: no such file or directory > $ ls /mnt/ > . .. > $ umount /mnt > device is busy > > I'm now downloading a 7.1-BETA-livefs ISO and I'll try next to boot > the box with this CD to see if I can scp the kernel from > another box ... but any other tip or suggestion is welcome.
Hmmm, that is odd. I wonder if you are chroot'd into the drive somehow? That really shouldn't be though. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
