From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 03:20:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766C5106566C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:20:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5170D8FC1F for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:20:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.3.245] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m2Q3KfvB031746; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:20:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, dave@syix.com Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:20:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <007501c88edf$5f274740$26714dd1@syix.com> In-Reply-To: <007501c88edf$5f274740$26714dd1@syix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803252320.39255.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: BSD 6 or 7 + Intel 3200 MCH chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:20:45 -0000 On Tuesday 25 March 2008 09:19:00 pm Dave Overton wrote: > Just put together a nice 1U box, Tyan Tank GT20, plugged in its 8gb ECC > RAM, its 4 shiney new HDs and fired it up. Bios looks normal, reset > the clock to something resembling today, and throw in the Fbsd7 disk! > > No joy. > > I get just a hint of a "booting" line, then an instant reboot, or with > a 6 disk, I get a scrolling mess that I have no idea what it says. Partly guessing, but this sounds like the real-mode BTX bootloader issue. It's become increasingly common on newer hardware, and it's not limited to USB devices like it used to be. Fortunately, there is a good chance that jhb's recent BTX overhaul will fix it. Unfortunately, it was only committed to -CURRENT two weeks ago and MFC'ed to RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 one week ago so I doubt there's a ready-to-use snapshot CD you can download that includes it. If it were me I'd create a bootable USB stick (on another machine) to verify that you can boot the server with the latest boot blocks, then use it to do a manual install (or at least bootstrap the process). But that's just me--I like that sort of thing. It's also possible to roll your own installation CD but I've never done.it. I do recall someone posting an link to an image to one of the mailing lists, but IIRC that was with a BTX patch older than the one that actually got committed. Probably someone else on this list has a better suggestion. JN > My question, has anyone got fbsd running on one of these chipsets? If > so, how did you do it? Tried 7 release in i386 and amd64 version, and > v6 i386. They all do the same thing. > > (it will run the misc test CDs I have here just fine, even let it do > most of a WinXP install with no issues, so I don't really believe it to > be a hardware issue) > > Tyan Tank GT20 model B5211 > Tyan Toledo i3200R m/b > Intel 3200 MCH chipset.