From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 20 11:18:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 3DD9816A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:18:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dd2626.kasserver.com (dd2626.kasserver.com [81.209.184.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB21043D1D for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:18:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from duality.bytephobia.de (pD95F09AA.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.9.170]) by dd2626.kasserver.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CA1846C39; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:18:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:21:12 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann To: Doug White Message-Id: <20040620132112.3f3c3dfa@duality.bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <20040619112104.D48022@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040618131219.75ea8f90@duality.bytephobia.de> <20040618101949.B36931@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040618201253.044a6666@duality.bytephobia.de> <20040618204900.6657e62b@duality.bytephobia.de> <20040619112104.D48022@carver.gumbysoft.com> Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: outi@bytephobia.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:18:25 -0000 On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Doug White wrote: > well you replied to yourself and made this a mess, I'll see what I can do > to trim it down :) > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > > > > > Whats the RAID config? > > > > > > I forgot to include that. Shame on me. > > > 4x 120GB, 7200rpm, 8mb chache WesternDigital Disks are configured as one Raid 5 array. > > > > Disk details: WDC WD1200JB-75GBB0 > > So 1 4-disk raid5. ok. > > > > > > 5.1-Release > > > > > w ACPI: Loading twa.ko (binary distribution of 3ware.com for 5.2) in sysinstall failes. > > > > > w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. > > > > > > > > I wouldn't expect this to work. > > > > > > > I tried that, as download page on 3ware says (FreeBSD 5.1, but i > > > excpect that this is an error) > > Yeah, I don't think thats right; Vinod said its been qualified on 5.2. > The kernel ABI's changed since 5.1. > > > > > > 5.2-Release > > > > > w ACPI: loaded twa.ko in sysinstall. > > > > > install went ok, on next reboot it just halts after BTX-Loader. > > > > > I cannot load twa.ko in loader. > > > > > w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. > > > > > > > > Hm, sounds like the loader is getting corrupted. Try booting the install > > > > CD, breaking out of the loader countdown and run these commands > > > > (untested): > > > > > > > > unload > > > > set rootdev=disk1s1a (or whatever disk you put freebsd on) > > > > boot /boot/kernel/kernel > > > > > > No, i think i didn't make it clearly enough. It halt on BTX-Loader. > > > I don't to the "real" loader. I don't see what modules it loads, etc. > > > I'll reboot an post the exact message i see. > > I was asking if you can boot off a different media here. Since you can > boot off the CDROM okay, I wanted you to use the CD's loader to boot the > on-disk system. If that worked then the loader binary on disk was > probably corrupted. I don't understand excatly what you mean. I can indeed boot of floppy, cdrom and an old-fashioned ide-disk. only booting from raid does not work. Do you mean that i have to boot with installation cdrom, escape to loader-prompt of cdrom and do some testings? Sorry for annoying you, but i'm a real newbie :/ > > > twa.ko from 3ware dowload-site included new firmware. The controller > > > has been updated automatically. > > > > > twa firmware is 2.02.00.011 > > twa bios is 2.02.01.037 > > Ah, they split it into runtime firmware and BIOS. I was curious if there > was a new BIOS available, but it appears its a part of the driver package > now. Thats annoying; if you can't boot due to a BIOS problem, you can't > boot to upload a new BIOS. Nice chicken-&-egg problem. yeah, i'd like to do updates by myself, but ok, that's their decision... > > > I have second ide-disk with a some day old current. I can mount the partitions created during install. All seems to be ok. > > > > > > I tried a install with twa.ko of current, but it panics with an > > > page-fault everytime i load the module through sysinstall. > > Sounds like the module and kernel are mismatched here. > > I'd suggest contacting 3ware at this point, since there is obviously a bug > in the 3ware BIOS. I will do so. Thanks for your help! Asus does not provide any support for the A7M266-D anymore... I flashed the motherboard's bios to the newest beta (1011 beta 5), as i would need it, when i want to upgrade to 2 Athlon XP 2400+ anyway. But it didn't change anything. I hate that. My Promise raid5 did not work, so i sold it. Now i bought a 3ware and it does not boot. :/ -- =========================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi at bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook