From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 7:55:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353B737BB36 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 07:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA60624; Wed, 3 May 2000 15:51:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:51:49 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Korolev_Andrey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem in FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE installation Message-ID: <20000503155148.C56045@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from korolev@eldep.mephi.ru on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:48:14PM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:48:14PM +0400, Korolev_Andrey wrote: > Hello! > I want to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on my PC. > But during the installation process (after all options are chosen and I > press Commit) there appears the window with the text: > Writing partition information to drive ad0,- > and the installation process is not going futher. > When I press Alt-F2, the lines: > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices..done > -are periodicaly repeated. > How could I solve this problem and install this version of FreeBSD on > my computer (with 3.2-RELEASE there was no problem)? > > At the start of installation, BSD has found devices as: > atapci0: port 0xe............ > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ad0: 8223MB [16708/16/63] at ata0 - master using UDMA33. Good question, if you find out the answer, let me know as I'm currently sticking to 3.4-STABLE as that's the latest I can get to run on my PC, I get exactly the same symptoms as you, with a VIA chipset too, will have to check the chipset model number though. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message