Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 16:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Sykes <matt-sykes@excite.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: install boot hangs Message-ID: <4145237.1002410403116.JavaMail.imail@patti.excite.com>
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I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE from the floppies. motherboard: P2L97-DS (dual-processor Pentium II 300MHZ) hard disk: Western Digital Caviar 22100 (2.1 gig) The motherboard and hard drive are a wee bit old, but working. This was my linux box before I attempted to convert it to FreeBSD, and it worked quite well. After configuring the kernel, the boot hangs after printing sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> I make sure there are no driver conflicts when configuring the kernel. Following some advice I found by looking through google groups, I have done the following: - Upgraded bios. - Made sure there are no irq conflicts from cmos. - removed all cards except video card. - removed all drivers from the kernel setup except the ones for the hard drive, floppy drive, screen, keyboard (and maybe something else). - disabled parallel ports in bios. - disabled secondary IDE in bios. Only primary IDE and floppy enabled and connected (only primary master used). - checked the floppies. Tried it with different floppies. Did a md5sum on all .flp files and verified from ftp site. - (re)installed linux on the drive, on the same computer. Linux installed and booted/ran fine. - erased the drive and installed windows on the drive, on the same computer. Windows installed and booted/ran fine. - manually changed the partition ID to be FreeBSD using fdisk from a floppy distribution of linux. - Tried it with another drive, a Caviar 32100. Same problem with that one. (Unfortunately I don't have any other drives, and I'm too cheap to buy another one for now.) - I am sure that FreeBSD supports this drive because someone mentioned they use one with FreeBSD in this newsgroup. - tried various permutations of driver selection in the kernel setup. - did an intricate ritual dance during each boot attempt. Here's what my screen looks like after the hang (there may be some typos). The scrolled-away portion is lost, of course. ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 uhci: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xd400-0xd41f at device 4.2 on pci0 pci_cfgintr_virgin: using routable interrupt 3 pci_cfgintr: 0:4 INTD routed to irq 3 usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power mangement controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xd00-0xd0ff mem 0xe0800000-0xe0800fff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci0 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 15/255 SCBs fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes theshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 vga: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> and hangs. If I enable the other drivers it goes on after this to say sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: parallel port not found and hangs. Enabling parallel ports in cmos, it goes on to say ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 and hangs. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -Matt _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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