Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:08:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5R not getting off the ground Message-ID: <199507271208.OAA28170@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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Hi
I've got a spam^H^H^H^Hexperimental box, a two-year old Data General
PC. It's been returned from a customer from a leasing deal, so i
thought its best use here would be to serve as an experimental box for
FreeBSD 2.0.5 (while our main server is still running 1.1.5.1).
The BIOS announces the CPU as a 486SX, even though FreeBSD would find
npx0. The box comes with 4 MB RAM on-board (and i don't have some
spare SIMMs to add memory), as well as an on-board VGA and AHA-1520.
Any attempts to install 2.0.5R on it jam right after starting
sysinstall. VT1 is displaying a rock solid cursor block in the
lower left corner, VT2 containst just
DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)
VT2 is accepting keystrokes, but the whole box is totally stuck.
Booting with -c -v -h (nice to get it to a serial console this way,
but sysinstall is unwilling to do use it, and switches back to the sc0
driver). After a long time, a message
sd0(aic0:0:0): Timed out
would appear on VT2, but that's just all.
Here's the boot stuff (minus the ``foo0: disabled, not probed.''
messages):
Booting the kernel
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 10 10:28:28 1995
jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
... (UserConfig output deleted)
real memory = 4194304 (1024 pages)
avail memory = 1818624 (444 pages)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed1 at 0x300-0x30f irq 5 maddr 0xc8000 msize 8192 on isa
ed1: address 02:60:8c:43:3c:dd, type 3c503 (8 bit)
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16450
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16450
lpt0 at 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 765
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in
aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 11 on isa
aic0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(aic0:0:0): "FUJITSU M2623S7512 GP DG02" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd0(aic0:0:0): Direct-Access 323MB (663476 512 byte sectors)
sd0(aic0:0:0): with 1780 cyls, 7 heads, and an average 53 sectors/track
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
rootfs is 1075 Kbyte compiled in MFS
BIOS Geometries:
0:01423f20 322 cyl, 63 heads, 32 sects
0 accounted for
Does anybody have any clues?
Well, one final datapoint: disabling aic0 gets me to the sysinstall
menu. But how the hell install it now? (I've already zero'ed out the
MBR to fake a fresh disk. I've also double-cheked for address
conflicts.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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