AMCC 9000 manual To install the driver as a module

Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller

To install the driver as a module

1Boot with the FreeBSD CD-ROM or diskette.

2In the sysinstall menu, select Configure > Load KLD module.

Note: Immediately after the OS starts booting from the CD, insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver, twa.ko, into the floppy drive. If you do not insert it immediately, sysinstall may fail to recognize the floppy drive.

3Load the driver from the floppy drive.

4Run the FreeBSD installation and reboot.

For instructions on how to install FreeBSD, see the FreeBSD website, at http://www.freebsd.org/

5Remove the floppy disk and the CD.

6On reboot, escape to the loader menu.

Note: Once again, immediately after the OS starts booting, insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver, twa.ko, into the floppy drive. If you do not insert it immediately, the loader may fail to recognize the floppy drive.

7At the loader prompt, run 'lsdev' to make sure the floppy drive has been discovered.

8Load the driver from the floppy. For example, if the floppy drive is disk0, type

load disk0:twa.ko

9Run 'boot'.

The system should now be able to boot.

10After the system boots up, do the following:

a Create a directory for the floppy.

mkdir /floppy

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