Intel Matrixraid on amd64

[Benny Goemans]

Hi Dieter,

Thanks for your idea.
I've checked if APIC is enabled in the BIOS and it was. As a test I disabled 
it to see if it would make any difference. It seems the boot cd can't even 
load its kernel correctly and hangs at a certain point.
btw. I'm trying to migrate from i386 8.0-RELEASE to amd64 8.0-RELEASE.

So the good news is that APIC is enabled and that my disks actually show up in 
dmesg. The bad news is that sysinstall can't see them.

I might be able to install the amd64 version by hand but I'll reserve that for 
later when there is no other solution. I'm a bit worried that I might mess up 
the system since I've never done anything like it.

Kind regards,

Benny Goemans

On Saturday 26 December 2009 14:47:32 Dieter wrote:
> i386 vs amd64:
> 
> If you're updating from 6.x to 8.x (or even 7.x) amd64 needs either APIC
> turned on in firmware, or a custom kernel with 'device atpic'.  Device
> atpic was taken out of amd64 GENERIC in 7.0.  :-(  On my mainboard this
> resulted in not having any disks available.
> 
> sysinstall:
> 
> If it is a sysinstall problem, you should be able to install 8.0 by hand.
> Something like
> 
> export DESTDIR=/os/new/
> for foo in base doc catpages dict games info manpages ports lib32
> do
>   cd ${foo}
>   sh ./install.sh
>   cd ..
> done
> cd src
> sh ./install.sh all
> cd ../kernels
> sh ./install.sh generic
> 
> Then edit files in etc as needed.
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