Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:04:40 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ABIT PX5 233MMX Pent, R2.2.2, 2.2.5., 2.2.6 all hang in sysinstall Message-ID: <19980405210440.45817@nothing-going-on.org>
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Hi folks,
I've been trying to get a friend's machine working with FreeBSD with little
success.
The box is a 233 MMX Pentium, w/ 32MB of RAM, 3GB of IDE disk (ST33232A)
on the first controller, and a CDROM and ZIP drive as the primary and
slave devices on the second controller.
The graphics card is a 4MB S3d ViRGE/DX. The sound card is an ESS
Technology ES1869 PnP AudioDrive. The modem is a ComWave V.34PNP
Data/Fax/Voice (not my choices, but I've got to work with them).
Both the soundcard and modem are PnP, the other devices aren't.
The motherboard is an ABIT PX5.
The 2.2.2, 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 boot floppies probe and find the
hard disk, CDROM and Zip drives without a problem. The sound card
and modem are ignored, but I'm not surprised by that.
When booting from the 2.2.2 or 2.2.5 floppy, the probes happen, and
then the last three lines printed are:
Changing root device to fd0c
rootfs is 1440 Kbyte compiled in MFS
/stand/sysinstall running as init
(the first two are kernel messages, i.e., bold white, the last one isn't,
full output available on request).
The screen then clears, the block cursor goes to the bottom left corner and
sits there. Nothing else happens.
When booting from the 2.2.6 boot floppy, the first of the three lines
above is
intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround
but the others are the same. Then the familiar blue screen and dialog
comes up with
Probing devices, please wait...
And then it hangs.
So far I've tried:
- Turning off all caching and shadowing in the BIOS. No effect.
- Booting from the 2.2.5 CDROM, instead of floppy. No effect.
- Disabling all non-pertinent devices (network cards etc) vs. leaving
them in. No effect.
- Disabling sio0-3 on the offchance it was a conflict with the S£ card.
No effect.
- Trying both "flags npx0 0x1" and "flags npx0 0x7" (as seen in a couple
of messages in the mailing list archives). No effect.
- Pulling out the modem and sound cards on the off chance they were
conflicting in some way. No effect.
- Turning on the "PCI 2.1 Compliance" option in the BIOS (an Award
BIOS, if that makes any difference). No effect.
- Thump machine. No effect, but I feel less stressed.
- Deciding that this is all too much hassle, and going out for a
curry. No effect, but I feel less hungry.
I've worked my way through the mailing list archives and the web
site search. I turn up hits from people who have these things working,
but nothing from anyone having problems getting them to install.
The boot floppies/CDROM have no problem running sysinstall if I put
them in my P200 ASUS motherboard machine, so it's not the installation
media.
During the week I'm going to try and lay my hands on a boot floppy for
one of Linux/NetBSD/OpenBSD just to see if they get any further, which
might at least assist the diagnoses. Other than that, any and all
suggestions for other avenues of exploration gratefully appreciated.
Oh yeah. Needless to say, DOS/Win95 works :-(
N
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