Lately, i ran and port problematic packages under FreeBSD. All the packages now seem to install without particular problems.

The tested platform is a FreeBSD-7.1 RELEASE 64 bits.

I have a crappy hard drive which claims to be UDMA-66 compatible, however, its an old PIO4 based one ...

After successfully upgrading the system to Freebsd 7.1 this week end, at 3.30AM, i can't boot :(

The driver want to go UDMA, the disk doesn't understand.

No mean in the bios to force that... And no more internet because this box is the home router !

What to do ?

Go to use my 3G phone to get my ISP DNS because ... the funny "freebox" is customizable throught the web, on the free.fr website.

You have no local access on it.

So now, i have some route and DNS setted up, i can go to read

man loader(8)
man ata(4)

And now, i know some interresting new things:

Disable dma:

set hw.ata.ata_dma=0

Prompt for root partition when the partition location changed:

set boot_askname