Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:48:24 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 - RELEASE/STABLE and Asus PI-P55T2P4 Message-ID: <20000607204824.M9883@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10006062301470.27815-100000@super-g.inch.com>; from spork@super-g.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:47:10PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10006062301470.27815-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 23:47 -0400, spork wrote:
>
> Just a quick note for the archives. If you have problems
> installing 4.x from a bootable CD on a SCSI CDROM, make sure
> you have the latest Asus BIOS. I didn't, and it locked the
> machine up hard (no Ctrl-Alt-Del). This is with a Toshiba
> CDROM and Mylex/Buslogic BT-948. I also flashed that to the
> latest rev for the fun of it.
I don't have the exact same hardware nor do I even have something
similar. The machine looks something like this (sorry, don't
have it at hand here, but could collect more concret data on
request):
- Athlon/700 (with 256MB of RAM)
- MSI (MicroStar) board with IronGate (751/756) chipset
- BIOS as of 2000/04/24 (latest available version)
- ATAPI cdrom and IDE harddrives
and it completely freezes booting the 4.0-RELEASE CD (the German
user group's assembly as sold by JFLehmanns, www.lob.de). The
"keyboard: yes" is seen, the rotating dash starts showing, but
then the machine locks up hard and can only be power cycled or
pushed via the reset button. This seems to be the stage where
disks are scanned and enumerated for the loader.
I won't be able to provide dmesg output (won't boot) nor did I
have the time to investigate the problem any further -- I got the
machine two days ago and installing FreeBSD on it was "just an
option" after everything else was done.
I could collect the data from eyeballing(sp? id?) the hardware
and maybe booting Linux -- *if* this will do, neither did I try
this up to now.
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