Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:29:47 -0700 From: Robert Gray <robert.gray@boulderlabs.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: Robert Gray <robert.gray@boulderlabs.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0BETA4 cannot install. acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left) Message-ID: <200712092329.lB9NTlI8098013@easter.boulderlabs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:35:20 %2B0100."
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"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:35:20 +0100 says: >Robert Gray wrote: >> I've tried to install both >> 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso and >> 7.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso >> >> on a Dell Optiplex 745, Model# DCTR with >> >> acd0: CDROM <TSSTcorp CD-ROM TS-L162C/DE05> at ata3-master UDMA33 >> >> The booting doesn't get past the acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying >> error. >> >> 6.2 installs fine. >> >> Any ideas on what to try? > > >Possibly Key 3 = Safe mode (before USA or country), which includes, ref my > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf >the equivalent of loader command > set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 > >Please let me know if anything on my page above helps you, >please also let me know if you discover other magic Not on my page. >(I'm fighting a heap of old laptops, persuading them to upgrade :-)) > > >-- >Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com Booting with Safe Mode (3) results in Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel cpuid 0 apcid 00 instuction pointer 0x70:0xc8c0 The last line printed before the crash is ata5: [ITHREAD] If people want details, I'll use a camera on the screen because I only get about 5 seconds before the computer restarts. Robert
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