Re: New Poweredge 1750 scsi/net not working with 3.4-current

[Nick Nauwelaerts <nick@nauwelaerts.net>]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:17:13 +0100 (CET)
Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Andre Dalle wrote:
> 
> > I'm having some trouble getting my Poweredge 1750 going.  The
> > on-board Broadcom 5704C NICs are coming up unconfigured, as is the
> > SCSI system.
> 
> The bge(4) driver is not on any floppy. The cd image cd35.iso does
> contain bge(4), or try bsd.rd (see
> <http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#bsd.rd>).

Speaking about bsd.rd, is there any reason why it's build of RAMDISK_CD
instead of ramdisk containing all drivers that GENERIC does? Are there
size constraints for booting bsd.rd perhaps? I'm asking because my
network card isn't supported by bsd.rd, making it less useful as a
recovery or troubleshooting tool.

// nick