From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 2:20:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5729737B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 02:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aristote2.infomaniak.ch (aristote2.infomaniak.ch [212.23.248.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0665743E54 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 02:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bib@infomaniak.ch) Received: from infomaniak.ch (unverified [212.23.248.13]) by aristote2.infomaniak.ch (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:21:01 +0200 Message-ID: <410-220027299191646@infomaniak.ch> X-EM-Version: 6, 0, 0, 6 X-EM-Registration: #00E0620610781F002A20 X-Priority: 3 From: "Bertrand" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:19:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear all, Regarding my previous message of yesterday, i changed my hardware and made some more testing. 1. Hardware ----------- Asus p2l97-s with adaptec 7880 and intel piix4 controllers 1x IDE disk (ST36531A - dosn't mater) 1x ATAPI CD-driver (Creative CD 5230E) 1x SCSI disk (DNES-309170W) 256Mb RAM 2. Bios Settings ---------------- With pnpbios enabled With pnpbios disabled With IDE as first boot device With SCSI as first boot device in all case, boot set to: "CDROM, C, A" Yesterday, I also tryed booting with floppies without greater success. 3. FreeBSD 4.6 boot behaviour ----------------------------- Booting from install disc 1 CDrom. 3.1 BTX reports strange Bios drives (comments are my one): ---------------------------------------------------------- BIOS drive A: is disk 0 BIOS drive B: is disk 1 BIOS drive C: is disk 2 # <--- !!! BIOS drive C: is disk 3 # <--- !!! BIOS drive D: is disk 4 Why drive C twice ? 3.2 lsdev output ---------------- Stoping boot process at boot prompt in order to launch lsdev. Here is the full output of this command: cd@0xff2c disk@0xef38 disk0: Bios drive A: disk0a: FFS disk0c: FFS disk1: Bios drive B: disk2: Bios drive C: int=0000 0000 err=0000 0000 efl=0001 0246 eip=0000 f99d eax=0000 0000 ebx=0009 4d28 ecx=0000 a000 edx=0000 0000 esi=0009 4ad4 edi=0009 4d10 ebp=0009 4aac exp=0009 4a74 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=f7 75 fc 89 45 f8 89 d0 - 8b 4d 08 31 d2 f7 71 10 ss:esp=28 4d 09 00 4c 83 03 00 - 10 4d 09 00 84 40 09 00 BTX halted Any way to workaround this problem ? Many thanks in advance for your help Kindest regards Bertrand ------------ Original message begins here Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:31:02 +0200 From: "Bertrand" Subject: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s Dear all, I started a new FreeBSD 4.6 installation on an ASUS P2L97-s board with onboard Adaptec 7880 scsi as well as PIIX4 ATA-IDE controlers. On this system, IDE is only used for ATAPI CD Drive. Unfortunatly, there is no way to get sysinstall up and running. When I try to boot with either FreeBSD disc 1 CD, disc 2 CD or generated boot floppies, boot process hangsup right after having probed serial and parallel interfaces, whitch seems to indicate a failure of the ata devices probe. Please, notice also: I had the same behaviour after having completly disabled IDE at bios level. I had the same behaviour after trying with FreeBSD 4.5 boot CD. Hmm, finaly I had no problem at all trying to reinstall linux (!) Furthermore, i tryied to stop boot process at boot loader prompt, running lsdev in order to see what wendt wrong... the system crashed gracefully :( I have absolute no idea about interpreting the output below, after my signature. Would someone be nice enough in giving me some tips for resolving this issue ? Many thanks in advance Kindest regards Bertrand - ---------------------------------------------------------- Here is the output of lsdev: int=0000 0000 err=0000 0000 efl=0001 0246 eip=0000 f99d eax=0000 0000 ebx=0009 4d28 ecx=0000 a000 edx=0000 0000 esi=0009 4ad4 edi=0009 4d10 ebp=0009 4aac exp=0009 4a74 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=f7 75 fc 89 45 f8 89 d0 - 8b 4d 08 31 d2 f7 71 10 ss:esp=28 4d 09 00 4c 83 03 00 - 10 4d 09 00 84 40 09 00 BTX halted - ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message