From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 07:29:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 93FF716A41F for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:29:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from psamuel01@yahoo.com) Received: from web33511.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33511.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32A2D43D46 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:29:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from psamuel01@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 63750 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Sep 2005 07:29:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rz9MfDA1ElRVfBKlLMOhEOC+iCVG1w1bu5YkXAEFtFbVDw4tt7ZxIoFCKANR8QWiD4pCS/CgEpyFE6lMZKH1FGduXYU7TYQE1+wYI0ledAi4Mo8suTO5FdkA9x+95NMRw7zY9KURktr5oZuiqMnshSobrqjrohuGJM6S32CAnJQ= ; Message-ID: <20050905072956.63748.qmail@web33511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.208.219.212] by web33511.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:29:56 PDT Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:29:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Patterson To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <431BA652.5040400@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation error Intel mobile ICH6M SATA controller. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:29:57 -0000 Well like I say the 600's where PATA and my 610 is SATA. Some have Intel Video and some have ATI. Some have AGP while others have PCI-x so they come in different configurations. That is why I ask you for your configuration. Are you installing on a ICH5/6 or an ICH6M? SATA or PATA? I could not get FreeSBIE to work either. I just did a minimal install and I always get invalid partition/slice! I also asked, "How > > can I get the dmesg info for you from > sysinstall/vc4?" I dont know a way to get output from an install disk. --- Eric Anderson wrote: > Dean Patterson wrote: > > Well not all D610's are created equally. I work > in > > the Caterpillar IT dept. and even our orders from > one > > week to another differ. The one I am using has a > SATA > > controller (ICH6M) with ATI pci-x video. Is this > what > > you are using? As far as the setup I am doing a > > simple one slice system and setting is active. > And I > > check it on vc4 and it shows active. I am also > just > > doing a minimal install so I dont understand what > > could be different than the many other installs. > I > > had it on a Dell D600 with no problems, but it was > > PATA. Although I dont know why SATA would cause > an > > issue as I know FBSD to have great SATA support. > How > > can I get the dmesg info for you from > sysinstall/vc4? > > I really appreciate your assistance. > > Hmm.. Well, the ones I've seen seem to match the > same specs, and while I > have seen linux (Fedora Core 2) stumble on it, > FreeBSD has always worked > fine for me on D610's (and 600's). > > Can you do a full install? Also, I didn't see the > fdisk or bsdlabel > info - can you post that somewhere? You might be > able to boot a > FreeSBIE disk or even one of the recently posted (on > -advocacy I think) > BSD CD boot disks, and then send the dmesg that way. > > So - if I understand correctly, it just never mounts > the root > filesystem? We really need to see the last chunk of > a verbose boot I > think plus the fdisk/bsdlabel info to get any > further. > > Are you in Houston? > > Eric > > > > --- Eric Anderson wrote: > > > > > >>It had the ICH6M, but the 915GM is graphics I > >>believe (so shouldn't > >>matter). Here's a somewhat recent dmesg output: > >> > >>http://googlebit.com/freebsd/dmesg.txt.200508062026 > >> > >>I'd guess either it's a BIOS config problem, or > >>something that was > >>selected on installed. We have several D610's, > and > >>all the times I've > >>tried installing FreeBSD on them, I've had no > >>issues. > >> > >>I don't believe we ever saw the output of bsdlabel > >>and fdisk on ad0 - > >>can you send that please? > >> > >>Eric > >> > >> > >>Dean Patterson wrote: > >> > >>>Do you have the Intel 915GM chipset and the ICH6M > >> > >>SATA > >> > >>>controller? > >>> > >>>--- Eric Anderson wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Dean Patterson wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Well I checked it using the shell and it was > >>>> > >>>>marked as > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>active. But the problem is that the ATA driver > >>>> > >>>>only > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>supports up to ICH5, per the man pages. So how > >> > >>is > >> > >>>>>that situation handled? I assume that I am > NEVER > >>>>>going to run FBSD on this laptop? > >>>> > >>>>For what it's worth, I ran 5.4, 6.0, and 7.0 on > a > >>>>D610 with no problems. > >>>> > >>>>Eric > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>--- Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>From: Dean Patterson > >> > >>[mailto:psamuel01@yahoo.com] > >> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>I am sorry I should have mentioned that I > also > >>>>>> > >>>>>>tried > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>explicitly setting the slice active. I will > >> > >>try > >> > >>>>>>again > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>and check it using the shell; however, when > I > >>>>>> > >>>>>>tried > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>using the holographic shell nothing worked. > I > >>>>>> > >>>>>>tried > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>using fdisk, bsdlabel, and ls and I always > get > >>>> > >>>>the > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>>>message "command not found." > >>>>>> > >>>>>>The holographic shell is not the same as the > >>>> > >>>>fix-it > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>>shell. The > >>>>>>holographic shell lacks, among other things > >> > >>proper > >> > >>>>>>paths, which makes it > >>>>>>impossible to run many programs. The "Fix-It" > >>>> > >>>>shell > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>>is a menu option in > >>>>>>sysinstall and starts a fully-functional > shell. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>__________________________________________________ > >>>> > >>>>>Do You Yahoo!? > >>>>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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