From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 29 13:32:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6423A37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.pu.net (ns1.pu.net [216.87.139.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AD643E4A for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bugs@ns1.pu.net) Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.pu.net (8.12.6/8.11.6) id g8TKW1hX000822 for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:32:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bugs) From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <200209292032.g8TKW1hX000822@ns1.pu.net> Subject: PCI probing broken on DELLs again To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:32:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Someone posted a problem in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc where they could boot FreeBSD under 4.4 but cannot under 4.6. I'd bet the problem is also present under 4.7. Anyway I asked him to do "boot -v" under both and post the results. He has done so and they can be viewed at http://www.brinktech.nl/dell_44_46/ His box is apparently an older model: Dell Dimension XPS P90 MT (P54C) Pentium 90, 540MB HD, 8MB ram latest BIOS (A06, but I also tried A05 and A04) His original post is: | Subject: The DELL funnies (was: failed upgrade 4.4->4.6.2) | Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:34:58 GMT | Message-ID: <3d8f4096.33506937@news.demon.nl> It looks to me like the 4.6 pci probing is picking up his ata0 disk as ata2, not quite linking to it properly, and then failing when it probes ata0 later. Does anyone know of an easy way to disable the ata2 probe? My thinking is that if the ata2 probe is prevented then the ata0 probe will probably work and then he can run 4.6/7. Later Mark Hittinger bugs@pu.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message