From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 23:16:47 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 EB9F916A46B for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:16:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AD913C489 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:16:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l69N7lB8024115; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:08:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709180328.023f5c58@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:07:35 -0500 To: "Kurt Buff" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 23:16:48 -0000 At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: >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. Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive? On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order. I know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities. I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation. After you had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.