From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 17:20:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from PacHell.TelcoSucks.org (PacHell.TelcoSucks.org [207.90.181.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C0537BC22 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by PacHell.TelcoSucks.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA13948; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:20:37 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 4.0-20000408-STABLE and Asus K7M/AMD K7-750 Message-ID: <20000413172036.I2695@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> Reply-To: ulf@alameda.net References: <20000413171144.H2695@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000413171144.H2695@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org>; from ulf@alameda.net on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 05:11:44PM -0700 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 05:11:44PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > Finaly got my new desktop system for work in, but I am having problems > that the probe at install hangs. Booting verbose, the last message > I can get from scroll back in regards to ATA: > > ata0-master: success setting up UMDA4 mode on VIA chip > ad0: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 19574MB (40088160 sectors), 39770 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA66 > ad0: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=4 cblid=1 > Creating DISK ad0 > Creating DISK wd0 > ata0-slave: success setting up UMDA4 mode on VIA chip > ad1: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as slave > ad1: 19574MB (40088160 sectors), 39770 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > ad1: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA66 > ad1: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=4 cblid=1 > Creating DISK ad1 > Creating DISK wd1 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > > It then changes into sysinstall. The probing devices then just hangs. > Output from the second screen: > > [All kinds of messages about fd, worm, idad] > ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > ad1: invalid primary partition table: no magic > ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > DEBUG: Found a disk device named ad0 > ad1: invalid primary partition table: no magic > DEBUG: Found a disk device named ad1 > > After this nothing, CTRL-ALT-DEL leads to the "Do you want to > reboot" message. Any ideas ? Rebooted again (without debug) and this time sysinstall went through probing with flying colors. Only difference, I disabled the second IDE controller in the startup kernel config. Rebooted again with both controllers in the kernel config and sysinstall probe goes through fine again. Sigh, don't we hate non reproducable problems > > -- > Regards, Ulf. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message