Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:21:07 +0200 From: "Bertrand" <bib@infomaniak.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: barbish@a1poweruser.com Subject: can't start installation on ASUS P2L97-S Message-ID: <298430-2200274119217578@infomaniak.ch>
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Dear all, I can't start FreeBSD installation either from CD, nor from Floppy. System hangs at hw probe in a fashion that i can't interprete. BIOS upgrade, removing physical hw equipment, disabling devices at bios level didn't helped at all (Please, have a look at history below for details). Please, notice also that: 1. Booting and installing Slackware Linux 8.1 CD on this system succeed without any problems 2. Booting an OpenBSD 2.9 install CD succeeded without any problems. I canceled the installation process, exiting fdisk and disklabel utilities without changes. I love :-) FreeBSD and would not like to changes OS while there is a chance to overcome this problem, which may result from a lack of knoledges of myself (i still consider my self as a newbe, although i made successfull FreeBSD installs on a few systems, including athlon, PIII, 586 and 486). Special thank's to Joe & Fhe for theire help. Kindest regards Bertand ---- Original Message ---- De: bib@infomaniak.ch A: questions@freebsd.org, Objet: RE: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:08:21 +0200 >Joe and Fhe, > >Many thanks for your answer. >Accordingly your tips, I eliminated as much hardware as possible, >reviewed jumper settings, bios setup, and made following 5 tests. > >Before doing it, I updated bios to the last production release for >this board, i,e: > AWARD Modular BIOS v4.51PG > Asus P2L97-S ACPI BIOS Revision 1005 > >IN ALL CASES, i had the same hangsup problem. My system hangsup at >probe. > >Test 1. >------- > ATA IDE-only, booting on CD disc 1 with: > 3c905 network adapter removed > PNPBios disabled > IDE disk as master on primary ctrlr > CD as master on secondary ctrlr > SCSI devices physicaly NOT connected at all > SCSI controler not removed because embeded on board > FreeBSD kernel config menu left untouched > >Test 2. >------- > ATA IDE-only, booting on CD disk 1, same as test 1 > with following changes: > IDE disk as master on primary ctrl > CD as slave on primary ctrl > >Test 3. >------- > ATA IDE-only, booting on Floppy discs, same as test 2 > with following changes: > CD reader physicaly not connected at all > >Test 4. >------- > Same as test 1, with following changes in order to read > earlyer screen messages: > All removable devices (except kbd) wendt removed from FreeBSD > kernel config menu > > I booted twice, with following options: > > 4.1 Normal boot > 4.2 'boot -v' option > > >4.1 normal boot messages reports: > > isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 > isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 > atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA 33 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at \ > device 4.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > uhci0: ... > pci-cfgintr-virgin: using routable interrupt 3 > pci-cfgintr: 0:4 INTD routed to irq 3 > usb0: ... > uhub0: ... > uhub0: ... > chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power ...> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 \ > on pci0 > ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xb000-0xb0ff \ > mem 0xe1000000-0xe1000fff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci0 > aic7880: Ultra Wide chanel A, SCSI ID=7, 16/253 SCBs > orm0: ... > atkbdc0: ... > vga0: ... > sc0: <system console> ... > sc0: VGA ... > > <HANGS HERE> (please, remember that all removable device wendt >removed) > > >4.2 boot -v reports: > > ... > (all disabled devices shown as disabled) > ... > isa-probe-children: probing PnP devices > > <HANGS HERE> (please, remember PnP bios is disabled in bios setup) > > >Test 5. >------- > SCSI only, ATA IDE controllers disabled at bios level, > boot on Floppies > ATA devices phisicaly not connected > > >Furthermore, checking output of dmesg after having booted with >slackware linux install cd, i could see that ata probe is done after >seting PCI latency to 64, sothat I repeated test 1 after having set >PCI latency to the same value at bios level. >This didn't helped either :-(( > >Maybe, this trouble has something to do with INT Lines A, B, C, D. >Unfortunatly, there are no options in order to map freely at bios >level those lines to choosen PCI devices. > >Any tips still wellcome :-) > >Again, many thanks for your hand. >kindest regards >Bertrand > > >---- Original Message ---- >De: barbish@a1poweruser.com >A: bib@infomaniak.ch, >Objet: RE: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) >Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:21:04 -0400 > >>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" <bib@infomaniak.ch> >>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
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