FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

[michael]

Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:17 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently <Jeremy at FutureCIS.com> wrote:
>   
>> Anyway, what is this atapicam option.  How is it implemented, from the
>> loader prompt, editing the iso, or what?  BTW, how would one edit the iso?
>>     
>
> The atapicam facility can either be loaded as a module via
> kld_load (or put into /boot/loader.conf as atapicam_load="YES")
> or compiled into a custom kernel.
>
> The effect is that, when atapicam is loaded, ATA(PI) devices
> can be accessed as if they were SCSI devices. Your install
> devlice would then be /dev/cd0 (instead of /dev/acd0), using
> "SCSI commands" to access the ATAPI drive (this is what atapicam
> "translates").
>
> Editing the ISO, as far as I know, involves the /usr/src tree
> on a working FreeBSD machine, then editing the source files,
> and finally "make release". But I'm not sure on this, I've
> never tried it.
>
> Maybe someone with more experience on this tpoic could be
> more specific and explain?
>   
i have edited iso files directly, as it still contains the /boot/loader.conf
eg:
michael at macpro:/cdrom/boot# ls loader.conf
loader.conf
michael at macpro:/cdrom/boot# cat loader.conf
mfsroot_load="YES"
mfsroot_type="mfs_root"
mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot"
atapicam_load="YES"