From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 16 0:42:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872EC37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BB543E88 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0230.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.230] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 181ioo-0000Kn-00; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:42:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3DAD17AA.9A996B22@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:39:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: igorr@speechpro.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM troubles on i815EP based MB References: <20021016055517.GA462@sysadm.stc> <3DAD0D3A.A97D19EB@mindspring.com> <20021016071037.GA442@sysadm.stc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Igor Roboul wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:50PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > unrelated to whether or not the hardware is supported or not by > > FreeBSD. > FreeBSD boots from CD, but could not mount / from it :-( Are we talking about the VIA chipset board that won't run after 4.5-RELEASE, or are we talking about the i815EP chipset board? The problem is that you have asked two questions here. > Also in 4.6 case, this was system upgraded from sources. But same > problem when booting from intall CD. This is irrelevent to the upgrade procedure I outlined; the upgade procedure I gave you will work to upgrade a system from a version that can find the CDROM to any later version which can't. This is why I gave you that specific procedure: the upgrade is run on the old kernel that can find the CDROM drive. ONE of the MANY reasons I gave you the procedure I did was that it is possible that the driver needed for your CDROM drive and/or its controller was omitted from the pseudo-floppy boot image. > Yet again: system boots, sysinstall starts (in -CURRENT case), but it > could not find CD :-(. > With 4.6 system boots but without CD, both source upgraded and from > installation CD. > > PS. > I'm tracking -CURRENT on various machines from March, 2000. So, I know > how system boots from CD. FWIW, you still haven't identified the controller or the CDROM drive or the probe messages from the 4.5-RELEASE that is able to boot on the hardware, for either machine. The chipset the machines are using is not germane to this discussion: it's most likely just useless information that has nothing to do with the problem. If you are insisting that this is a driver problem, it would be helpful to know: 1) The last driver version that worked 2) The driver version that didn't work PS: Have you tried telling it not to load ACPI? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message