Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 22:09:20 -0400 From: "Shaun Sabo" <shaun.bsd@gmail.com> To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller Message-ID: <be79767b0805021909y1b8192b9tc7f883730ccaba3e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080502184449.GA21226@keira.kiwi-computer.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> <20080502184449.GA21226@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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What happens with the bios is i start with the machine off. turn it on. boot into any freebsd 7 based disk. ill exit the disk and tell it to reboot the system. the system shuts down and it goes to turn on again. when you turn on a dell computer a progress bar will fill and then it will go to the boot loader/active partition, i believe that it initializes the bios settings. what happens after i reboot out of the freebsd 7 based disks is the progress bar hangs at about 2/3 full. i can boot into a cd or operating system fine if i turn the machine completely off but something isnt re-settting when i reboot out of freebsd. this used to happen when i tried using debian linux because debian was still on the 2.4 kernel which did not have support for my motherboard so i couldnt even boot the debian installer cd. i also tried booting the freebsd installer disks without apic but the same problem occurs so i dont think its hanging because of the power managment. as for the livefs. i downloaded both the 7-STABLE and 7.0-RELEASE livefs cds. when i boot them up it gets to the sysinstall program like all of the other disks do. to use the livefs functions you have to go into fixit and then choose the CD/DVD option. what this does is it mounts the filesystem kept on the cd so that you can switch to the virtual terminal 4 (alt+f4) and use the system as a recovery disk or for dmesg and such. the error i get is "could not mount the livefs cd. try again?" for some reason i cannot mount any sort of media in freebsd 7 systems. the computer handles the booting of the cd's fine but freebsd cannot for some reason handle the mounting of disks. the next step im going to take is installing 6.2 and remaking the world but adding device aptic to the kernel. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Rick C. Petty < rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> wrote: > 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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