From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 03:17:15 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 870EA1065676 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 03:17:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5BB8FC17 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 03:17:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.bsd@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k31so1105412fkk.11 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 20:17:13 -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=T1OcNSsKI8iMBfWMGT7PSDXh0FyWtue6TVDEX+fgVJA=; b=ORnCT8NnogPHORr+/bokwXfHjHQ6/fBshZQGPrVINr5+k7G66LrsEXX+c46CGKyRTojRfuW6EVocmoBcOqO0FgX9weecxIzlTyCPe+ALEyEfeKFiHIzl2enC7r/GhPtWk9sER9QKPCjoENsVLZY1/hTtvBW0sgRD4kNc+To7qd4= 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=aGYxhcGhQ5Twt4UbUNkuMO+vkhJ2duEtkcf4/Z4VIgVEp86WqoeCz0imhaTOEyzbdtso7+JSpWZnHiS/xLYwwi6deRyZJZkuHAViMP5nQGNo0hZWO7vo8FWPKlsSlCUh4pIVCm8eEp7QzFvqTeozoeYtIFPofZ/eCfRtToU1GvA= Received: by 10.78.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr831631hub.16.1209698233511; Thu, 01 May 2008 20:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.180.19 with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2008 20:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 23:17:13 -0400 From: "Shaun Sabo" To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: 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 03:17:15 -0000 re-flashed bios with latest version from dell's website. it was the same version but i re-flashed anyways and im still seeing the same behavior where i cant mount any disks to install or use the livefs. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Shaun Sabo wrote: > 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 | > > > > >