From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 03:03:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B905E1065673 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 03:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C83D8FC0A for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 03:03:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.bsd@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so1938208fge.35 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 20:03:15 -0700 (PDT) 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=bYKHsulgQVx13PqT2E9Gk6RGZpSbkAYvvJeW7WBLv0c=; b=T67+F8WcnnA6AZgxSSTKOItcZyEuKOHH13fojqy45bkXUW1M7O2XhXHYMCTK4LqH4BOHRc0fpFr4vMxZ6jOf8CbKjMZp2Z4MudaTGKBQPPs/bPl5L88EBD4DoNpF7Pg8oQdiAkeNaMlZwvSOCbmazAIsLYsSl2gaJIqIIlrxehs= 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=pLf73DpM+F1PYZxxgMbPQCGLw9LOLLqyEQ3R4jRquaKxSiA4WGMWTV93ElJfGmEIU3imCIBGNNPcUpcEkACUDAWZMOjOtIUOglwSkL9K06CBlou8jpLvFcBfFgUMwMvH31rin14od7fn6LFRIhQ0ffMaJ9Ryo4vtScF4o1G9vHo= Received: by 10.78.173.20 with SMTP id v20mr788957hue.100.1209697395212; Thu, 01 May 2008 20:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.180.19 with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2008 20:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 23:03:15 -0400 From: "Shaun Sabo" To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: <20080502025657.GA82058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080501204157.GA67015@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080502025657.GA82058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> 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: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 03:03:18 -0000 but then why does it not complain in freebsd 6.2, linux, or windows but it does in 7.0? and why i mean by the freebsd sysinstaller is the screen you get when you boot a freebsd disk or when you type sysinstall at a command line in a bsd system. i had the problem where it would only boot 2/3 of the way into the bios once before when i used debian, it was because debian was still on the 2.4 linux kernel and didnt support my mobo yet so it tried to detect it and you had to completely power off the system to get it to boot again, which seems like what is happening here. im going to try re-flashing the bios just to make sure that nothing is wrong with them. And also i tried both the 7.0-RELEASE and 7-STABLE livefs disks and both of them cannot mount the livefs image. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:46:53PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote: > > i tried both the 7-stable and 7.0-RELEASE livefs disks and when i went > into > > fixit then to CD/DVD livefs it would ask me for the livefs cd (which i > had > > in the drive and which i booted from) it looks like i cant even mount > the > > image of the livefs disk from the cd-rom drive. > > I'd recommend you burn one of the snapshot livefs images to a CD and > boot it. This is what I was implying the first time around. It should > give you a live FreeBSD system with common utilities. > > > also iv noticed that when i > > reboot after booting into the sysinstaller the bios gets about 2/3 of > the > > way booted and stops and i have to hold the power and reboot to get back > > into opensuse/vista. > > I don't understand what this means. "When I reboot after booting into > the sysinstaller". Are you talking about FreeBSD sysinstall? > > Otherwise, any situation where the BIOS does not boot your hard disks > sounds more like a BIOS or system problem and definitely has nothing to > do with FreeBSD. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > >