Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:40:50 -0600 From: "michael Alexander" <linux@MILWAUKEEVALVE.COM> To: "'Scott Long'" <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems installing onto DAC960 (Mylex Acceleraid250) Message-ID: <006a01c3d14f$2fc8dba0$bd02a8c0@Pmjalex> In-Reply-To: <20031229160108.P93734@pooker.samsco.home>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Scott Long > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 5:07 PM > To: michael Alexander > Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Problems installing onto DAC960 (Mylex Acceleraid250) >=20 >=20 > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, michael Alexander wrote: > > > > Ok, downloaded the 5.2RC2-i386-miniinst.iso, no luck. > > BIOS has an option of > > "PCI IRQs to IO-APIC Mapping" (enabled/disabled) > > I didn't see anything else relating to APIC, or APCI(?) > > > > I set that to disabled. No luck, Then I left it disabled=20 > and tried install > > w/o apic, still no luck. Then I ran with logging and have=20 > the following > > messages on screen after the Waiting 15 seconds.... >=20 > Did you select the 'Boot with ACPI disabled' option from the=20 > boot menu on > the CD? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but people often transpose > 'apic' and 'acpi', so I want to make sure. I would try=20 > toggling both the > BIOS 'IO_APIC Mapping' option and the ACPI option on the CD boot menu. > If all four combinations fail to work, the only thing left to=20 > do is set > up a serial console and capture the boot output and email it out. The > boot serial console is enabled by escaping from the CD boot menu and > typing 'boot -Dhv' >=20 > Scott Yes, I did try using the boot with acpi disabled option, and it didn't = help. I got another message off-list, that stated that FreeBSD currently = doesn't work with the zero channel raid in this configuration, maybe not in any configuration? Because I do not have the proper cabling to connect the = card and the raid chassis, it appears that for now FreeBSD is a dead end for = this hardware. Thanks for the assistance though. -Mike
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