From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 28 04:51:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322C216A41B for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shieronymus@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA59113C4D3 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shieronymus@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so4949188fka.11 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:51:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=RbxzDlS8EcCGMhC3XUM675KtOODRh/vt4lNsDJQON3g=; b=pJrrOjWPamLPMCJfjqhkJ0q/xgpYgzlskzOoM8W5Vu60TKQAuzu6gOuADpa101yY8JjSw7PH1cCBtZuRyRSMk9/ah4+bjr8Lsj7HtQu+qYhmGmYbjSJ90pZ2WBlNKPy6oIcj7NR41Wt5n010eLENp8IcsPdym/PDDMvxqMkxmFI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=geZnJa8na77Dqh1CJje67XpMhTU0mCJf8wvHPhfr1bHS8Qf/EmHUlzkfe3W7nCeqLLFVDJomnbBv4wcXvPOjOjjtUZdK71aQyEsVPAsp70PVAv26y7FF3OCitli5YOUTEYD7YIYLpN8X1CGK1eWDT76BDy1eRy6lApkWGEAVJaw= Received: by 10.78.133.2 with SMTP id g2mr10765055hud.26.1198817465945; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.140.2 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:51:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70d306230712272051q5aa9f0b2xf9e61150d2da307d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:51:05 -0700 From: "Seth Hieronymus" To: "Roland Smith" In-Reply-To: <20071228002922.GA75879@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <70d306230712240855j3ecd0000w7a7f87cadc15652a@mail.gmail.com> <47743135.50103@delphij.net> <70d306230712271549j1fc5c31dm3a8d5acc04871c9e@mail.gmail.com> <20071228002922.GA75879@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, delphij@delphij.net Subject: Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk 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: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:51:08 -0000 On Dec 27, 2007 5:29 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > > > > The specs of the system are: > > > > Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard > > > > AMD Athlon64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz > > > > Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579) > > > > 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1 > > > > Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card > > > > One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk? This > will > > > be helpful to narrow down the issue... > > > Thanks for the response! What you suggested worked -- I removed the > SATA > > cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0BETA4 > > AMD64 LiveFS cd. > > > Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard > also > > has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is: > > atapci1: > > I've got two disks attached in RAID1 to the VIA 6420 controller. Works > fine here (7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD amd64). Try connecting your disks to the > via controller. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) > Thanks for the reply. That's good to know about the VIA controller. I'm not quite ready to wipe my current disks yet, which I think I would have to do to switch RAID controllers, but may go that route in the future. I also confirmed I can install on a plain IDE harddrive, so may just do that for immediate testing. Thanks, Seth