From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 13:48:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from torpy.unbc.ca (torpy.unbc.ca [142.207.144.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B03B37B405 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ugrad.unbc.ca (IDENT:root@ugrad.unbc.ca [142.207.112.20]) by torpy.unbc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA1888522; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (karlj000@localhost) by ugrad.unbc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08661; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:47:21 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: ugrad.unbc.ca: karlj000 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:47:21 -0800 (PST) From: Jeremy Karlson To: Paul Chvostek Cc: Scott Stevens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lockup on install In-Reply-To: <20011028161906.M82104@gahch.it.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I did an install with 4.2-RELEASE floppies, then a CVSup, and everything appears to work okay now. Right now, I'm running 4.4-STABLE and it *seems* to be okay. I'm not sure if anything changed on STABLE between RELEASE and yesterday on the SCSI drivers, but perhaps someone who works in there may know? However, when I did CVSup, I also installed a custom kernel - I guess that could make a difference. I'll try the generic one later today and let you know the result. --- Jeremy On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > 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: 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message