From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 18:21:20 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 C466037B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.a1poweruser.com (oh-chardon6a-62.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.65.175.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED8143E4A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barbish@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish (lanwin1 [10.0.10.6]) by smtp.a1poweruser.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 62485D4; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:25:07 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Bertrand" Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <410-220027299191646@infomaniak.ch> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 Lets use the 'process of elimination method' to debug your system. Remove SCSI control board and disk drive from system, Put ide disk as master on primary cable and CD-drive as master on secondary cable. Be sure to set drive jumper to master and not CS cable select. Use pnpbios disabled. Try again. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bertrand Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:19 AM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message