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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:47:28 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem Booting 4.0R Floppy (ATA Driver?)
Message-ID:  <20000316234728.G64407@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000315183902.A60236@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:39:26PM -0500
References:  <20000315183902.A60236@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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I hate to follow up to my own post, but I could use some help here,
and I suspect I'm getting lost in the flood of 4.0R update
questions. So, I am going go ahead and follow up my own post.

To test if the boot floppies I made off of my CD were OK, I tried them
in another machine. I used an even older machine, an i486DX, another
Gateway. I got to the kernel config, cleaned out things I did not have
(kept the usual suspects plus aha0), and went to boot. This machine
booted up and went into sysinstall just fine.

That makes me think my boot floppies are definately OK. It leaves me
wondering why the distributed GENERIC kernel is then panicing when I
boot on the other system. I'd look into possibly rebuilding a kernel,
but (a) I don't know where to start to solve my problem and (b) I
don't have a 4.0R system to build on since I am having trouble with
the machine I was planning to use for the first 4.0R.

Anyone have ideas?


On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:39:26PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on one of my "toy"
> machines, an ol' P5-66 from Gateway. I first tried the 'make world'
> approach last night, but managed to wedge the machine into a pretty
> much unusable state when the installworld kept failing in the middle.
> 
> Anyway, I downloaded the 4.0-RELEASE and burned it in a CD. The
> machine won't boot from CD, so I made the floppies. However, the
> kernel won't boot, it panics. Here is the last few lines of kernel
> messages (this is after the visual config which seems to work[0]),
> 
> atapci0: <RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss possible> port 0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 1.0 on pci0
> atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported
> panic: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy
> Uptime: 0s
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> 
> I'm assuming that the panic has someting to do with the ominous
> message with the atapci0 info? Then again... maybe not.
> 
> The system worked without a hitch in 3.x-STABLE (until I mucked up the
> upgrade). I saw some caveats about some disk drivers, but it didn't
> look like an Intel RZ1000 would be a problem.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> [0] One thing I did notice in the visual config, no ex0 device. Is
> that an intentional deletetion or is something else going on?
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
> 
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