Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

[L Goodwin]

--- "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm at prime.gushi.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote:
> 
> > I have found that when I do an install with an
> install.cfg file on a floppy, 
> > I must insert the floppy right after the system
> begins to boot from CD. If I 
> > don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I
> get an error.

On a related note, sysinstall often errors out while
trying to read from the CD-ROM (with FreeBSD disk in
it). When read errors occur, sysinstal behaves
erratically. You never know what will be displayed or
how it will handle the situation (sometimes it looks
like it aborted, but when you press Enter, it goes
ahead with the install). BTW, this is in FreeBSD 6.2.

> >
> > As a work around, if I go into the options and
> select rescan for hardware 
> > devices (not sure if that is the exact wording)
> after inserting the floppy 
> > disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a
> try.
> 
> No luck.  I've rescanned time after time, and get
> nothing.  No sloppy 
> devices show up in dmesg, cannot use mount_msdosfs
> to access the floppy, 
> etc.
> 
> This is truly, truly frustrating, as I am trying to
> follow THESE 
> instructions:
> 
> http://3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14850
> 
> I've even tried installing to an external (non-raid)
> drive in an attempt 
> to use that drive as a "really big floppy".  The
> boot loader doesn't know 
> how to see the BSD partition on it, and apparently
> can only see "raw" bios 
> drives.
> 
> Another possible approach was to try and boot from
> the single drive and 
> then use sysinstall to install onto the RAID array,
> but I've had issues 
> with that before.
> 
> As an aside, the module HAS to be loaded before the
> boot process, so I 
> can't use kldload to load the module from a fixit
> floppy or something like 
> that.
> 
> My workaround at the moment is that I am downloading
> a snapshot ISO of 
> -STABLE
> 
> It might be nice if the "loading modules from
> floppy" procedure (while 
> rarely required) was better documented.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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