From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 27 17:24:44 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA15552 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:24:44 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA15500 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:24:28 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA16543; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 02:23:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA09380 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 02:23:46 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA19476 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:28:10 +0200 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id OAA28170; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:08:07 +0200 From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199507271208.OAA28170@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: 2.0.5R not getting off the ground To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:08:07 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@freebsd.org X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2847 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)