Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:19:06 -0500 From: Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> To: Scott Stevens <scotts@speakeasy.net> Cc: karlj000@unbc.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lockup on install Message-ID: <20011028161906.M82104@gahch.it.ca> In-Reply-To: <200110272028.f9RKSlG52307@gahch.it.ca>; from scotts@speakeasy.net on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 03:30:38PM -0500 References: <20011026173313.A12107@gahch.it.ca> <200110272028.f9RKSlG52307@gahch.it.ca>
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USB settings don't appear to make a difference. Jeremy's discover appears to be correct, though; the problem is with the SCSI support. When I boot a 4.2-RELEASE CD, I get to the menu, and can set up things for an install ... but when it starts writing partition info to the disk, I get a "panic: Going nowhere without my init!" A reboot shows that the partition table was indeed not written to disk. So I give up on the onboard SCSI and stick in an Adaptec 2940U2W (i.e. same chipset, same driver, but not on the motherboard), and get the same results. It doesn't seem to be the controller. As I can't find my NCR SC875, I do another audit of my office, and find that I actually have a 4.3-RELEASE box running with an Adaptec 2940UW. This is an AIC-7880, but still the ahc driver. Wacky. The motherboard in this box is an Asus P3B-F. And lo and behold, I *can* do a 4.4-R install on this box. I pull the disks off the P2B-DS board and plug 'em into the 2940UW in the other box. The install is perfectly normal, but when I put the disks back in the other box, instead of hitting the boot loader, I see: Error loading operating system When I boot the CD, get into the loader and 'lsdev', it panics after reading "disk2: BIOS drive C:" and finishes with "BTX halted". I give up. I'm going back to Symbios. On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 03:30:38PM -0500, Scott Stevens wrote: > > The same thing happened to me. If you have the onboard USB interrupt > disabled in the BIOS settings, try enabling it. > > On Friday 26 October 2001 04:33 pm, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > This hasn't happened to me before. > > > > Asus P2B-DS (one CPU) with onboard AIC-7890, 128MB RAM, a couple of UW > > SCSI drives. I've tried installing both from floppy and bootable CD, > > with the same results. I get past the kernel config to where it starts > > probing devices, and the last thing that gets displayed is: > > > > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > > > > At this point I appear to have a full crash, because caps lock and num > > lock won't change, and Ctl-Alt-Del is ignored. > > > > I've tried removing all extraneous goop from both the kernel config and > > the BIOS settings. I've tried with "PNP OS" set both to Yes and to No. > > I've tried swapping the video card (different brand, different chipset). > > And I have now run out of ideas. > > > > The box was working fine running FreeBSD 3.2 up until last night, when > > I low-level-formatted the hard disks and tried to start over. > > > > Anyone have a clue what's wrong? > > > > Thanks. -- Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598-0000 IT Canada http://www.it.ca/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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