From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 19:16:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BBC1065679 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (mail-gw2.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E4D8FC1C for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mBNJGZ3i007869; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:35 GMT Received: from buffy-128.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.160] helo=buffy.york.ac.uk) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LFCk7-0007gp-25; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:35 +0000 Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBNJGY7G030599; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:34 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id mBNJGYoX030598; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:34 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Greg Wang In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:34 +0000 Message-Id: <1230059794.30039.17.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 8.0-CURRENT: No disks found! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:39 -0000 On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 09:36 -0500, Greg Wang wrote: > Regular boot gives "fatal trap #12", "no acpi" and "safe mode" both give > message "no disks found!" on sysinstall screen (partitioning). Both hashes > are OK, burned @x4, 3 different CDs were tried. > Asus P4S333c (SiS chipset 645/961), P4 2.4GHz, mem 768MB, ps2 keyboard, ps2 > mouse, GeForce3-Ti200, monitor Viewsonic VA912b (1280x1024). > 6.0, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1-Beta2 - all run perfectly on that machine. > Did 8.0 drop supporting SiS? Or what could be a reason? This should now be fixed, with a commit on 2008/12/18. If you are installing from 8.0 snapshot ISOs, I don't think any include this fix yet. Either wait until the 200901 snapshot, or install the 200809 snapshot, which predates the SiS chipset breakage. > Another machine: Asus M3N78-VM, AthlonX2 (4450e) 2.3GHz, DDR2-800-4GB, > NVidia chip, GeForce 8200 (onboard), ps2 keyboard, usb-mouse, SATA -HDD, > SATA CD/DVD-W, all features - onboard. Monitor: SyncMaster2253bw. > 8.0-CURRENT amd64 version. > With CD1 could install only Base, Kernel and docs. Anything else including > Xorg cannot be installed (error: no Index present). FTP: "there is no > distribution on ftp://... do you want to try another ftp site?" > pkg_add output: command not found. Again hashes are OK, 2 CDs were tried. I'm guessing, but this is probably because the FTP site doesn't carry all the parts for a network install of -CURRENT. It's not clear if you are talking about installing packages or other parts of the base system, the latter should work but the former is probably best done outside of sysinstall. > Downloaded dvd.iso 3 times: first failed @97% (error: cannot copy from > server), second download finished successfully but .iso file couldn't be > found (mystery!), 3-rd download was OK. > However I got the same problem with Index files on the DVD and "no > distribution" with FTP using sysinstall. Again, packages may not be included on the CURRENT install media, and even if they are, they probably are not tested anywhere near as much as a -STABLER release. Use pkg_add rather than trying to do it at install time. > Fortunately dvd installed pkg_add and I managed to install X and then Gnome. > Currently have problem with correct resolution (1680x1050) only 1280x1024 > available as maximum. There is no data for ModeLine in xorg.0.log mentioned > in handbook. Tried to force in xorg.conf: > Section Monitor: > HoryzSync 30.0-81.0 > VertRefresh 50.0-76.0 > Option "DPMS" > that was accepted as well as DefaultDepth 24 under Screen section. > > Section Screen: > Modes "1680x1050" > Doesn't work. xorg.0.log output: "not used, no such name" ) > xorg.0.log + - in the attachment. Can't help you here I'm afraid. Gavin