4.10-STABLE boot issues

[Brad Waite]

Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It obviously works for the rest of the world, and it doesn't look like a
>>>BIOS access problem since it can read the file fine if its on /.
>>
>>Well /boot is *not* on /dev/da0s1a.  It's on /dev/amrd0s1a, but boot2
>>doesn't know how to get at the amr device.  At least not as far as I've
>>tested.  I'm leery of messing around in
>>/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c, but if someone wants to give me
>>some pointers, I'll try it.
> 
> 
> This is new information ... the BIOS Int13 calls for the AMR may be doing
> something evil.  Is there updated firmware for that device available?

I'm running the latest firmware available.  The NetRAID's a pretty 
common card, and I haven't heard of anyone having similar problems under 
FreeBSD.  Does boot2 treat /dev/da and /dev/ad different, or are they 
both accessed through INT13?