From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 16:09:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA07610 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:09:11 -0700 Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07599 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:08:59 -0700 Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA00300; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:08:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:08:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@oasis To: David Anderson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, David Anderson wrote: > (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.. > > 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) I've got a 2300+ running fine here. (at 50MHz no less) One thing you should try, if you haven't already, is to totally disable the 2300+ onboard BIOS and boot. This worked for me. (Also, when I tried switching it back on it ZAPPED my partition table) --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net