Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 15:27:15 CDT From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) To: questions@freebsd.org, partek@indecent.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller Message-ID: <9508302027.AA23573@merak.med.ge.com>
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> > (Please send replies to partek@iquest.net) > > After using Linux for 4 months, and learning more about FreeBSD, I > decided to give it a try. (The main thing that convinced me was the > kernel configure that's almost identical to SunOS 4.1.3) > I tried 5 times yesterday to install FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP. Each time > the install over FTP went fine,(even though it took forever over my 28.8k > modem) but when it came to booting the system from the HD, it would lock > up looking something like this: > > ------------- > >> FreeBSD [Stuff I don't remember deleted] > > Boot: > | > -------------- > > Then the computer was completely frozen. I was told on #FreeBSD that the > problem sounded like it originated with my hard drive controller. I've > tried every setting, and every configuration on the controller and it > still did the same exact thing when trying to boot from the HD.. Is this > controller just incompatable with FreeBSD, or am I doing something > horribly wrong? I tried setting it up with the boot manager AND the > standard MBR also.. > No, this controller works fine. I have one in my BSD box. You need to disable the on-board bios. There is a jumper on the card. I did that when I first loaded 2.0 and it worked fine. I haven't changed the jumper since, so I don't know if the 2300+ bios works with the newer FreeBSD boot scheme. BTW: For dos, I load the eide drivers that Promise supplies so I still get the improved proformance. > Also, when installing I ran into another problem. When sysinstall went to > write the fdisk info to wd0, it would crash saying something like this: > ------ > sysinstall: read input/output error > panic: running away without my init! > ------ > It then would force a reboot. > I don't know what caused it, but if I erased the partition table and > started over, it seemed to work. Could this be related to the HDC too? > > I refuse to go out and spend $80+ on a new EIDE controller, so I'm > willing to help out in any way I can on getting this to work. > > (Please send any replies to partek@iquest.net) > > Derek Laufenberg laufen@sol.med.ge.com
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