From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 6 17:10:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E4937B403 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-133.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.133]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA15284; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:10:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011006191044.031a30f0@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:10:44 -0500 To: Matt Sykes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: install boot hangs In-Reply-To: <4145237.1002410403116.JavaMail.imail@patti.excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ... any way to try another video card..? Even if to borrow one to see if that is really the problem being its the only card left..... At 04:20 PM 10.6.2001 -0700, Matt Sykes wrote: > >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: 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: 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: port 0xe800-0xe80f >at device 4.3 on pci0 >ahc0: 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: 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: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 >atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 >kbd0 at atkbd0 >vga: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on >isa0 >sc0: 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: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 >ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode >plip0: 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 > > Best regards, Jack L. 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