From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 15:01:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F72B16A402 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: from corpmail.itlegion.ru (corpmail.itlegion.ru [84.21.226.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98B4513C471 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:01:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: (qmail 2264 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2007 18:01:33 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO Artem) (192.168.0.12) by 84.21.226.211 with SMTP; 21 Jan 2007 18:01:33 +0300 X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web [version: 4.33, engine: 4.33.5.10110, virus records: 170702, updated: 21.01.2007] Message-ID: <003601c73d6d$0620c910$0c00a8c0@Artem> From: "Artem Kuchin" To: "Mark Kirkwood" References: <01c501c73a58$2c546550$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45B280C5.30106@paradise.net.nz> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:00:31 +0300 Organization: IT Legion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all 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: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:01:36 -0000 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Artem Kuchin wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I am having a VERY weird problem. >> >> The pc config is: >> >> 1) Celeron 1+ GHZ >> 2) Intel PCI ethernet nic >> 3) Fasttrak TX2000 raid + 2 mirrored disks (seagate 80gb) >> 4) teac dvd driver >> 5) 512 MB ram >> 6) Chaintech montherboard (old one) >> >> also tried on gigabyte motherboard >> >> I insert boot cd and when it starts loading a get a dump >> of cpu register scrolling crazy on the screen. >> >> If i delete TX2000 the installer loads fine. >> >> Any idea what is happening and how to SOLVE it? >> >> > > I have seen this with a Tyan PIII board + TX2000. In my case re-trying > the boot from cd several times would *eventually* get a working > installer session. (If you search the archives you'll see several > cases of folks encountering this). Unfortunately I don't know of any > solution. > > A (tedious) workaround (in case repeated attempts always fail for > you), is to install a minimal system off an earlier version of > FreeBSD and run the installer off the installed system - or just src > upgrade to the version you want. I found that the 4.x, 5.0, 5.1 and > 5.2 cd's all worked fine - but 5.3 onwards and 6.x would register > dump. There is a better workaround which i used. A simple start of installer from 4 floppies. Then install the whole system from CD-ROM. It does work but insolved copying of floppy images onto the disks. However is it a very annoying problem which i have been encountering since 5.0-RELEASE. The bootloader failed when trying to load installed from CD-ROM on pretty much every PIII and old Celeron pc which i tried. (it is about 6 machines by now). Very weird and i have no idea to how help to solve the problem. -- Regards Artem