From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 21:20:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EEA016A400 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:20:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D6D13C489 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:20:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so1551712waf for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:20:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WLZpEDVZokYSe6Y4v/6Dv06zvp0Md8eGVczCWw0OfhHlmR+iHDfpLwtjuQeK3JzRD3gVUAkQiBkJHE+P3L4hiis8cZu+SQ4V0SNrN7Zp4ChO5Dobe5F317FTDZMKD6rYiLPBan5rCmfNNA4nhESVEEJdXvj7T4dDJ71XM/Euf+o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=llWNLwHGDYZx/FOWvSHhf3ZjTeoc3j6O0fJHCCV73OG2pK1id2xPMx+v66xPKx/HQGqs2v9sb6ESC/fM6sT53vKU8J5LLsUceWKPdhUkwiYGm7jcyJzWM839hOLu8QD2c+wv7ffRAzq8+hIWCMAQ9wI15MnAsfd2+2EN6wELULA= Received: by 10.114.149.2 with SMTP id w2mr3519228wad.1184016000906; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.173.11 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:20:00 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" To: "Derek Ragona" In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:20:01 -0000 On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: > > I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows > XP with no issues. > > However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any > of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing > > The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of > different disk arrangements, with no success. > > I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS > detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it > detects no hard drive. > > I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL > 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB > Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files > to disk. > > Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my > friend on this one. > > I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular > luck, but I could be missing something. > Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the > Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these > chips and FreeBSD! > > Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? > > -Derek Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did - that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine.