From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 10:18:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA87616A45E for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:18:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oweandre@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from fri.itea.ntnu.no (fri.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AE943D5C for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:18:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oweandre@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669437F2B; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from m240g.studby.ntnu.no (m240g.studby.ntnu.no [129.241.134.240]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:18:07 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Owe_J=F8rgensen?= To: "Tim Howe" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (FreeBSD, build 955) X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2) 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: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:18:10 -0000 I'm no expert on this, but I'd let that machine have it's own build environment instead of NFS importing it from a server. It _does_ require more disk space, but in the long run, it might be for the better. If you _must_ export from server, then export only /usr/src and not /usr/obj Owe Jørgensen On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:52:09 -0400, Tim Howe wrote: > I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 on. It's > identical (except for the hard drive) to another machine that I ran the > 4.x series on for some time with no issues. > > I've got several other Pentium 3-based machines running 5.4-RELEASE-p3 > with a GENERIC kernel, and I have a 5.3 installer disk, so my strategy > was to do a minimal install of 5.3, then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj > from my organizational build server and upgrade to 5.4 from there. > > The 5.3 install went smoothly, make installkernel went smoothly, but > when I tried to reboot I got an error saying that it couldn't find the > root filesystem. Further investigation found that it wasn't able to > find the ATA HDD (master on ata0) at all, but could find the ATAPI CDROM > drive (master on ata0). > > I verified that the drive had not gone bad by again booting off the 5.3 > installer disk, which found ad0 with no difficulty. I then downloaded > the 5.4 mini-CD, which was unable to find ad0. Finally, I swapped in > another hard drive with identical results. > > Neither booting with ACPI disabled (didn't bother to check whether this > machine even has it) nor booting in safe mode helped at all. > > I did happen to notice that when the 5.3 CD boots, there is a delay of > several seconds when probing ata0. Could this be a timing issue with > regard to the controller? > > The machine is a Gateway ATXSTF FED Pro M1000 with a 1GHz Pentium III > and 256MB of RAM. It has an onboard Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller. The > first HDD I tried was a Western Digital Caviar 32500 2559.8MB drive, and > the second was a Caviar 24300 4311.9MB drive. > > If necessary, I'm willing to build custom kernels for testing purposes > or to add debugging statements etc, if anyone can give me pointers in > the right direction. > > Thanks in advance. > -- mvh, Owe André Jørgensen