Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:44:49 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: Shaun Sabo <shaun.bsd@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller Message-ID: <20080502184449.GA21226@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <be79767b0805012003i72578470x9b568c7cf47fe4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <be79767b0805011034l7b82327dp12637daa12598567@mail.gmail.com> <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <be79767b0805011204r1a7aad67tf4f78d5363684f81@mail.gmail.com> <20080501204157.GA67015@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <be79767b0805011918k304e26d0ybd79f2d20e102bf7@mail.gmail.com> <be79767b0805011946p4a49ff7bs51db30652e0736aa@mail.gmail.com> <20080502025657.GA82058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <be79767b0805012003i72578470x9b568c7cf47fe4b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:03:15PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote: > 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 What do you mean by 2/3 of the way into the BIOS? Are you saying it only completes 2/3 of the POST? If so, it's not even getting to the point where it boots the CD. Or are you talking about 2/3 of the way through the kernel probes? If so, that's a problem I've seen a lot with Dells. In fact on a newly-purchased Dell 755, I couldn't get halfway through the POST about 75% of the time. Clearing the CMOS/RTC helped, and still about half of the time I boot into the FreeBSD kernel (7-STABLE) it would hang for no reason. Hitting the power button triggered an ACPI event to properly shutdown and restart, but it's damn annoying. > 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. What do you mean by mointing the livefs image? Are you booting a different CD? It was recommended that you burn the livefs CD and then boot *it*. That should also take care of the mounting. -- Rick C. Petty
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