From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 13:00:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7114D16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from monsoon.he.net (monsoon.he.net [64.62.221.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEDD243D1D for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:59:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@yaskowski.com) Received: from wintermute ([68.81.42.189]) by monsoon.he.net for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:59:55 -0800 From: "Paul R. Yaskowski" To: Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:59:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcPhKrC9d1Zv08DORB+dO1uqh/E3Kg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-Id: <20040122205958.AEDD243D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: 5.2-R Installation Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:00:00 -0000 My apologies if this is the wrong list. I've been having a long-standing issue installing 5.x onto a Dell PowerEdge 600SC. As far as I can tell, my issue specifically relates to PR 54549, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54549. 5.0-R and 5.1-R always paniced booting the first time off of the CD-ROM. 5.2-R gets much further, but I still have some issues. The problem seems to originate with the ATA controller, a ServerWorks CSB6 controller. I'm getting the following kernel messages while booting the first time before installation. Unfortunately the system doesn't respond to keystrokes quickly, so these have been written down: -- ata2-master: timeout sending command=ef error issueing PIO command error issuing ATA PACKET command ata2-master: timeout sending command=a0 -- It simply doesn't seem to like the CD-ROM drive. It will get to the installation menu, but it takes forever to respond to keystrokes after that. There are about 30 timeout errors in total. This is not an esoteric server, but I'm finding little information on how to resolve this. Additionally since I hopefully have a captive audience, could someone tell me if I can safely ignore the following kernel message that relates to all versions I've tried? -- pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum -- If anyone could shed some light on these problems, I would be indebted. I need ACL support! Paul