Andrew wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>
>> Let me start off by saying, I am completely behind OpenBSD's stance on
>> disabling Adaptec raid support (aac) in the kernel of the 3.7 release
>> and future releases. The way the open source community has been
>> treated by these companies is abhorrent and without people standing up
>> and asking for documentation we will end up with insufficient
>> software, hacks and otherwise unscrupulous work a rounds that frankly
>> don't cut it in a NOC. As an aside, we run a complete Dell shop with
>> perc3(Adaptec) based cards and though I have no future plans as of
>> this time to buy Adaptec in the future. Is there a walk through out
>> there to turn aac back on so that I can build a cdrom installation
>> that works?
>
>
> Update, I was able to install by following the upgrade guide from 3.6 to
> 3.7, although not as clean as possible, it works.
>
After some further work on a different machine, I was able to get 3.7
installed without using 3.6. I made a RAMDISK_CD kernel with aac in
/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/ then went into
/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd and did a make. I found the bsd.rd in
/usr/obj/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd and was able to use that to boot with
the enabled aac support. Note I also had to build a GENERIC kernel with
aac support, to use after the install. Obviously aac is no longer
supported in the kernel, so do with this info. what you will.