From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 19:11:32 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 79E531065678 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 19:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (keira.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2E9D8FC24 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 19:11:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 21458 invoked by uid 2001); 2 May 2008 18:44:49 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:44:49 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Shaun Sabo Message-ID: <20080502184449.GA21226@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080501204157.GA67015@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080502025657.GA82058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , 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 Reply-To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com 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 19:11:32 -0000 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