Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:07:02 +0100 From: Horatiu Palivan <Horatiu.Palivan@unibas.ch> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Version 4.1 do not want to install.... Message-ID: <3A2294B6.66EC32D0@unibas.ch>
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Dear sirs,
I have a Gateway P5-90 Pentium computer with the following
configuration:
- Pentium Processor 90 MHz (without fdiv bug).
- motherboard Intel Neptun (Zappa)
128 M memory (EDO memory: 4x32M)
floppy disks: 3.5" / 5 "
first IDE interface: hard disks: WD: 6400 G + 3200 G
second IDE interface: CD-Rom (40x) + Iomega Zip (100M)
ISA SCSI controller (AVA1505: IRQ=11 I/O=0x340 DMA=0) with:
- SCSI CD Writer Yamaha CDR8424S
- SCSI Harddisk (Seagate Barracuda) 4.2 G
ISA Network card: NE2000+ (IRQ=10 I/O=0x300)
ISA Creative Sound Blaster 16 Card
(usually: IRQ=5 I/O=0x220, 0x330, 0x388 DMA: 1,5)
ISA Modem Zoltrix (COM3)
- PCI have IRQ=9
PCI TsengLab (ET4000/W32p) video card (1M).
PCI Brooktree (BT848) video acquisition card
PCI Hauppauge TV/PCI(604) (BT878) TV card
I used once (in 1994) the 2.1 version of FreeBSD and I succedded
to install it. OK, I didn't use it too much, because at that time
I loaded the system from diskettes (I have had a CDROM IDE - the first
IDE version, a NEC one, but you didn't have support for the IDE CDrom,
only proprietary one... -> copy the distribution from CD to
diskettes, and so on... ). It was when the linux kernel was 1.1.59....
NOW:.....
On the computer there are installed (and working) the following
operating systems: Windows95, Novell 5.0, NT4.0, Dos6.2
Linux (kernel: 2.0.29).
The main boot loader is LILO (menu for 4 systems, except
Novell -> the DOS starting partition is a logical one).
I tried to install FreeBSD 4.1 on the computer, using the boot and
root diskette (I don't have a bootable CDROM in BIOS, then I generated
the diskettes from the CD), but I didn't succeed. It is the first time
when it happen this to me. The messages when the kernel (before the
installation menu) is booting are:
------------------------------------------------------------
avail memory: 124174336 (121264 K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc063e000
Preloaded mfs-root "/mfsroot" at 0xc063e084
Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug.
md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 2949120 bytes at 0xc036cd98
md1: Malloc disk.
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard.
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host on PCI bridge> om motherboard.
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
atapici0: <RZ100?ATA controller !Warning! buggy chip data loss possible>
port 0x3f4-ox3f7, 0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 1.0 on pci0.
atapici0: Busmastering DMA not supported.
panic: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy
uptime: 0s
------------------------------------------------------------
On other systems where I tried, it seems to boot until the instalation
menu........ But because it seems that you do not have a possibility to
review the booting messages (like SHIFT-Pg.UP in Linux), I do not know
the exact boot messages and sequence on the other systems, bacause when
I quit the installation menu, the system want to reboot).
I tried the tricks with "flags npx0 1" (from trouble.txt), but it don't
work. In the configuration of kernel, I disabled all possible features -
in advanced mode - (except sc0 and keyboard), but the same things
happen.
If you need messages, I tried to obtain all possible messages:
Booting messages:
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0: fd(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
BTX Loader 1.00 .......1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS driveA: disk0
BIOS driveB: disk1
BIOS driveC: disk2
BIOS driveD: disk3
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(jk4@ref4.freebsd.org, fri jul 28 12:39:58 GMT 2000)
/kernel text=0x21e97e data=0x2cd8c+0x2068c
(boot prompt)
: ls mod:
0x100000: kernel (elf kernel, 0x26cd98)
0x36cd98: /mfsroot(mfs-root, 0x2d0000)
: heap:
Active Allocations: 455/457
155648 bytes reserved 64216 bytes allocated.
7 fragments (10868 bytes fragmented)
heap base at 0x28600, top at 0x4e600
: ls dev:
disk0: BIOS drive A:
disk0a: FFS 1M (0-2880)
disk0c: FFS 1M (0-2880)
disk1: BIOS drive B:
disk2: BIOS drive C:
disk2s1: FAT-16 1004 MB (63-2056320)
disk2s2: Unknown fs: 0x65 568 MB (2056320-3220560) <- Novell partition
disk2s3: Unknown fs: 0x7 1380 MB (3220560-6048000) <- NTFS partition.
disk2s5: FAT-16 494 MB (6048063-7061040)
disk2s7: FAT-16 1004 MB (7061103-9117360)
OBS: here are missing some partitions... why ???
disk3: BIOS drive D:
disk3s1: FAT-16 511 MB (63-1048320)
disk3s2: ext2fs 66 MB (1048320-1185408)
disk3s3: ext2fs 346 MB (1185408-1895040)
disk3s5: Linux swap 122 MB (1895103-2145024)
disk3s7: ext2fs 1204 MB(2145087-4612608)
OBS: also here are missing some partitions... why ???
The problemm is: what can I do ? How can I install the FreeBSD on the
computer ? I do not know the order for the kernel to load drivers and
probe them, then I could not figure out where the error is... (and in
principle it must not be any errors, because it is not the first time
when I install an operating system on it)....
If you have some ideeas how to work around this, please let me know...
Horatiu Palivan
PS. Maybe you need more messages (and a lot are not related to the
error), but it was the maximum I could obtain at this stage (and it was
not easy)...
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