From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 15:31:36 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 15:31:34 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.cc.ukans.edu (falcon.cc.ukans.edu [129.237.34.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5712B37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 15:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by falcon.cc.ukans.edu (8.8.8/1.1.8.2/12Jan95-0207PM) id RAA0000027400; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:31:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:31:27 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Frisbie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.4 works, but 4.1 and 4.2 don't Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just upgraded my motherboard from an ABIT BH6 to an ASUS CUV4X. I have an 8.4G hard drive as the primary master drive, an ATAPI CD-ROM as the primary slave drive, and a TEAC CD-W54E CD-RW as the secondary master drive. Whenever I try to install FreeBSD 4.2, 4.1, and even Redhat 7.0, I get errors. For example, when I try to install 4.2, the debug screen says there's a WRITE timeout. It then tries to reset it, and then it says "device disappeared!" This all happens when it tries to write the partition table. It then says "panic: Going nowhere without init". And then it reboots. At first I thought it was a problem with the hard drive, but then I successfully installed FreeBSD 3.4. Why does 3.4 work but 4.2 doesn't? Thanks, Mike Please CC my address as I'm not on this list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message