Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:51:17 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "CS Reddy" <creddy@qwest.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 Installation saga!! Message-ID: <018701c0d761$61da9b50$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <001f01c0d75c$ed1f2be0$0200000a@voicestream.com>
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I've had that problem countless times ..... always with proprietory hardware (Compaq / Dell / Digital / Fujitsu / Gateway / IBM / etc) To date I've never been in a position where I had to stick with the particular system, however my guess is that the machines are built to run Windows only (sorta like the dreaded winmodems / winprinters). With one of the Digital Venturis systems I noticed a weird dmesg complaint about the IDE controller.... dunno how or what is done with it but it refused to even look at FreeBSD (runs Win98 prefectly)
----- Original Message -----
From: CS Reddy
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 Installation saga!!
Hi all!
I have been trying to install FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 on my PC for over a month. No
luck so far. This is a long story. So, please bear with me.
Let's start with my hardware configuration :
- Compaq Deskpro EN Series (Intel 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM)
- Intel Pro/100+ Alert on LAN* Management Adapter - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port)
0x2000 - 0x203F
- ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port) 0x1000 - 0x1FFF, 0x03B0 -
0x03BB, 0x03C0 - 0x03DF
- Intel 82443BX Chipset and Pentium II Procesor to AGP Controller - (I/O
Port) 0x1000 - 0x1FFF, 0x03B0 - 0x03BB, 0x03C0 - 0x03DF
- Intel 82371AB/EB (ISA, IDE Controller, USB-UHCI) - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port)
0x2060 - 0x206F for IDE - (I/O Port) 0x2040 - 0x205F for USB
- Keyboard - IRQ 1 - (I/O Port) 0x0060 - 0x0060, 0x0064 - 0x0064
- PS/2 Mouse - IRQ 12
- Two Hard Disks (Disk1 -Primary Master- Western Digital-20GB and
Disk2 -Primary Slave - Maxtor - 30GB)
both attached to my primary IDE Channel - IRQ 14 - (I/O Port) 0x01F0 -
0x01F7, 0x03F6 - 0x03F6
- Memorex 48 X CD-ROM (ATAPI) - Secondary Slave - Secodary IDE Channel - IRQ
15 - (I/O Port) 0x0170 - 0x0177, 0x0376 - 0x0376
- Standard Floppy Controller - IRQ 6 - (I/O Port) 0x3F0 - 0x3F5, 0x3F7 -
0x3F7
- ESS 1868 Audio Device - IRQ 5 - (I/O Port) 0x0220 - 0x022F, 0x0388 -
0x038B, 0x0330 - 0x0331
- Serial Port 1 - IRQ 4 - (I/O Port) 0x03F8 - 0x03FF
- Serial Port 2 - IRQ 3 - (I/O Port) 0x02F8 - 0x02FF
- 1 Parallel Port - IRQ 7 - (I/O Port) 0x0378 - 0x037F, 0x0778 - 0x077D
- CMOS - IRQ 8 - (I/O Port) 0x0070 - 0x0071
- Numeric Data Processor - IRQ 13 - (I/O Port) 0x00F0 - 0x00FF
- U.S. Robotics Fax PCI Win Modem - IRQ 11 - 0x2070 - 0x2077
As far as I can see, I don't think I have any unsupported hardware except
for my WinModem, which I don't use any way. I have DSL connection.
Now, Software Inventory on my PC:
- DISK 1 has WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.1 and this disk is
completely full
- DISK 2 is brand new and has nothing on it. I want to install FreeBSD here,
on this disk.
Now, my installation process (If this is not legible on your screen, please
take a look into the TEXT ATTACHMENT, FreeBSD_saga.txt):
1)Start the Install Process from my CD-ROM.
2)Start kernel configuration in full screen Visual mode.
3)I get 7 Hardware Conflicts. This is what I see after expanding all nodes:
---Active-Drivers------------------------------------7
Conflicts-------Dev---IRQ--Port--
Storage:
AdvanSys SCSI narrow controller
adv0
Adaptec 154x SCSI controller
aha0
Adaptec 152x SCSI controller
aic0
ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller
ata0 14 0x1f0
ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller
ata1 15 0x170
Buslogic SCSI controller
bt0
Floppy disk controller
fdc0 6 0x3f0
Network:
IBM EtherJet, CS89x0-based Ethernet adapters CONF cs0
0x300
NE1000,NE2000,3C503,WD/SMC80xx Ethernet adapt CONF ed0 10
0x280
Fujitsu MD86960A/MB869685A Ethernet adapters CONF fe0
0x300
AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100,3C507,NI5210 Ether CONF ie0 10
0x300
DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet adapters CONF le0
5 0x300
Isolan, Novell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet adapt CONF lnc0
10 0x280
SMC/Megahertz Ethernet adapters CONF
sn0 10 0x300
Communications:
Parallel Port chipset
ppc0 7
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio0 4 0x3f8
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio1 3 0x2f8
Input:
Keyboard
atkbd0 1
PS/2 Mouse
psm0 12
Syscons console driver
sc0
Multimedia:
Miscellaneous:
PC-card controller
CONF pcic0 10 0x3e0
Math coprocessor
npx0 13 0xf0
---Inactive-Drivers--------------------------------------------------Dev----
--------------------
Storage:
Network:
Communications:
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio2
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio3
Input:
Multimedia:
Miscellaneous:
PC-card controller
pcic1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[Enter] Expand device list [X] Expand all lists
[TAB] Switch fields [Q] Save and Exit [ ? ] Help
4)I tried several possible combintions to resolve the conflicts, starting
from removing only the hardware that is causing conflicts and does not exist
on my PC to just bare bones configuration. One such example is shown below:
---Active-Drivers-----------------------------------------------------Dev---
IRQ--Port--
Storage:
ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller
ata0 14 0x1f0
Floppy disk controller
fdc0 6 0x3f0
Network:
Communications:
Parallel Port chipset
ppc0 7
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio0 4 0x3f8
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio1 3 0x2f8
Input:
Keyboard
atkbd0 1
PS/2 Mouse
psm0 12
Syscons console driver
sc0
Multimedia:
Miscellaneous:
Math coprocessor
npx0 13 0xf0
---Inactive-Drivers--------------------------------------------------Dev----
--------------------
Storage:
AdvanSys SCSI narrow controller
adv0
Adaptec 154x SCSI controller
aha0
Adaptec 152x SCSI controller
aic0
ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller
ata1 15 0x170
Buslogic SCSI controller
bt0
Network:
IBM EtherJet, CS89x0-based Ethernet adapters
cs0 0x300
NE1000,NE2000,3C503,WD/SMC80xx Ethernet adapt ed0 10
0x280
Fujitsu MD86960A/MB869685A Ethernet adapters fe0
0x300
AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100,3C507,NI5210 Ether ie0
10 0x300
DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet adapters
le0 5 0x300
Isolan, Novell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet adapt
lnc0 10 0x280
SMC/Megahertz Ethernet adapters
sn0 10 0x300
Communications:
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio2
8250/16450/16550 Serial port
sio3
Input:
Multimedia:
Miscellaneous:
PC-card controller
pcic0 10 0x3e0
PC-card controller
pcic1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[Enter] Expand device list [X] Expand all lists
[TAB] Switch fields [Q] Save and Exit [ ? ] Help
5) I hit Q and then the probe starts. I see messages scrolling by for about
15 seconds and then I
see I big blue screen (of death!) and it says:
"Probing Devices.... (This may take a while)"
and the process comes to a grinding halt. I waited several times for more
than 30 minutes
and then I had to do a hard boot.
I have no fancy devices attached to my PC except for those that I already
mentioned above.
No matter what combinations I tried, I always got the blue screen.
Unfortunately, my CD-ROM is not attached to the Secondary Master but rather
to Secondary Slave. There is no device at Secondary Master. So, I removed
the CD-ROM from PC and I made two install floppy diskettes and tried the
install process and I get same exact blue screen!
Does some one know what's wrong with my computer? Please let me know if you
need any extra information.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've had that problem countless times ..... always
with proprietory hardware (Compaq / Dell / Digital / Fujitsu / Gateway / IBM /
etc) To date I've never been in a position where I had to stick with the
particular system, however my guess is that the machines are built to run
Windows only (sorta like the dreaded winmodems / winprinters). With one of the
Digital Venturis systems I noticed a weird dmesg complaint about the IDE
controller.... dunno how or what is done with it but it refused to even look at
FreeBSD (runs Win98 prefectly)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=creddy@qwest.net href="mailto:creddy@qwest.net">CS Reddy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 Installation
saga!!</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>Hi all!<BR>I have been trying to install
FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 on my PC for over a month. No<BR>luck so far. This is a
long story. So, please bear with me.<BR>Let's start with my hardware
configuration :<BR>- Compaq Deskpro EN Series (Intel 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM)<BR>-
Intel Pro/100+ Alert on LAN* Management Adapter - IRQ 11 - (I/O
Port)<BR>0x2000 - 0x203F<BR>- ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X - IRQ 11 -
(I/O Port) 0x1000 - 0x1FFF, 0x03B0 -<BR>0x03BB, 0x03C0 - 0x03DF<BR>- Intel
82443BX Chipset and Pentium II Procesor to AGP Controller - (I/O<BR>Port)
0x1000 - 0x1FFF, 0x03B0 - 0x03BB, 0x03C0 - 0x03DF<BR>- Intel 82371AB/EB (ISA,
IDE Controller, USB-UHCI) - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port)<BR>0x2060 - 0x206F for IDE -
(I/O Port) 0x2040 - 0x205F for USB<BR>- Keyboard - IRQ 1 - (I/O Port) 0x0060 -
0x0060, 0x0064 - 0x0064<BR>- PS/2 Mouse - IRQ 12<BR>- Two Hard Disks (Disk1
-Primary Master- Western Digital-20GB
and<BR>
Disk2 -Primary Slave - Maxtor - 30GB)<BR> both attached to
my primary IDE Channel - IRQ 14 - (I/O Port) 0x01F0 -<BR>0x01F7, 0x03F6 -
0x03F6<BR>- Memorex 48 X CD-ROM (ATAPI) - Secondary Slave - Secodary IDE
Channel - IRQ<BR>15 - (I/O Port) 0x0170 - 0x0177, 0x0376 - 0x0376<BR>-
Standard Floppy Controller - IRQ 6 - (I/O Port) 0x3F0 - 0x3F5, 0x3F7
-<BR>0x3F7<BR>- ESS 1868 Audio Device - IRQ 5 - (I/O Port) 0x0220 -
0x022F, 0x0388 -<BR>0x038B, 0x0330 - 0x0331<BR>- Serial Port 1 - IRQ 4 -
(I/O Port) 0x03F8 - 0x03FF<BR>- Serial Port 2 - IRQ 3 - (I/O Port) 0x02F8 -
0x02FF<BR>- 1 Parallel Port - IRQ 7 - (I/O Port) 0x0378 - 0x037F, 0x0778 -
0x077D<BR>- CMOS - IRQ 8 - (I/O Port) 0x0070 - 0x0071<BR>- Numeric Data
Processor - IRQ 13 - (I/O Port) 0x00F0 - 0x00FF<BR>- U.S. Robotics Fax PCI Win
Modem - IRQ 11 - 0x2070 - 0x2077<BR><BR>As far as I can see, I don't think I
have any unsupported hardware except<BR>for my WinModem, which I don't use any
way. I have DSL connection.<BR><BR>Now, Software Inventory on my PC:<BR>- DISK
1 has WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.1 and this disk
is<BR>completely full<BR>- DISK 2 is brand new and has nothing on it. I want
to install FreeBSD here,<BR>on this disk.<BR><BR>Now, my installation process
(If this is not legible on your screen, please<BR>take a look into the TEXT
ATTACHMENT, FreeBSD_saga.txt):<BR><BR>1)Start the Install Process from my
CD-ROM.<BR>2)Start kernel configuration in full screen Visual mode.<BR>3)I get
7 Hardware Conflicts. This is what I see after expanding all
nodes:<BR><BR>---Active-Drivers------------------------------------7<BR>Conflicts-------Dev---IRQ--Port--<BR>Storage:<BR> AdvanSys
SCSI narrow controller<BR>adv0<BR> Adaptec 154x SCSI
controller<BR>aha0<BR> Adaptec 152x SCSI
controller<BR>aic0<BR> ATA/ATAPI compatible disk
controller<BR>ata0
14 0x1f0<BR> ATA/ATAPI compatible disk
controller<BR>ata1
15 0x170<BR> Buslogic SCSI
controller<BR>bt0<BR> Floppy disk
controller<BR>fdc0
6 0x3f0<BR>Network:<BR> IBM EtherJet,
CS89x0-based Ethernet
adapters
CONF cs0<BR>0x300<BR> NE1000,NE2000,3C503,WD/SMC80xx
Ethernet adapt CONF
ed0 10<BR>0x280<BR> Fujitsu
MD86960A/MB869685A Ethernet
adapters
CONF fe0<BR>0x300<BR> AT&T Starlan 10 and
EN100,3C507,NI5210 Ether
CONF ie0
10<BR>0x300<BR> DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet
adapters
CONF le0<BR>5
0x300<BR> Isolan, Novell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet
adapt
CONF lnc0<BR>10
0x280<BR> SMC/Megahertz Ethernet
adapters
CONF<BR>sn0 10
0x300<BR>Communications:<BR> Parallel Port
chipset<BR>ppc0 7<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio0
4 0x3f8<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio1
3
0x2f8<BR>Input:<BR> Keyboard<BR>atkbd0 1<BR> PS/2
Mouse<BR>psm0 12<BR> Syscons console
driver<BR>sc0<BR>Multimedia:<BR>Miscellaneous:<BR> PC-card
controller<BR>CONF pcic0
10 0x3e0<BR> Math
coprocessor<BR>npx0 13
0xf0<BR>---Inactive-Drivers--------------------------------------------------Dev----<BR>--------------------<BR>Storage:<BR>Network:<BR>Communications:<BR> 8250/16450/16550
Serial port<BR>sio2<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio3<BR>Input:<BR>
Multimedia:<BR>Miscellaneous:<BR> PC-card
controller<BR>pcic1<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>----------------------<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>[Enter]
Expand device list [X] Expand all lists<BR>[TAB]
Switch
fields
[Q] Save and Exit [ ? ]
Help<BR><BR>4)I tried several possible combintions to resolve the conflicts,
starting<BR>from removing only the hardware that is causing conflicts and does
not exist<BR>on my PC to just bare bones configuration. One such example is
shown
below:<BR><BR>---Active-Drivers-----------------------------------------------------Dev---<BR>IRQ--Port--<BR>Storage:<BR> ATA/ATAPI
compatible disk controller<BR>ata0
14 0x1f0<BR> Floppy disk
controller<BR>fdc0
6
0x3f0<BR>Network:<BR>Communications:<BR> Parallel Port
chipset<BR>ppc0 7<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio0
4 0x3f8<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio1
3
0x2f8<BR>Input:<BR> Keyboard<BR>atkbd0 1<BR> PS/2
Mouse<BR>psm0 12<BR> Syscons console
driver<BR>sc0<BR>Multimedia:<BR>Miscellaneous:<BR> Math
coprocessor<BR>npx0 13
0xf0<BR>---Inactive-Drivers--------------------------------------------------Dev----<BR>--------------------<BR>Storage:<BR> AdvanSys
SCSI narrow controller<BR>adv0<BR> Adaptec 154x SCSI
controller<BR>aha0<BR> Adaptec 152x SCSI
controller<BR>aic0<BR> ATA/ATAPI compatible disk
controller<BR>ata1
15 0x170<BR> Buslogic SCSI
controller<BR>bt0<BR><BR>Network:<BR> IBM EtherJet, CS89x0-based Ethernet
adapters<BR>cs0
0x300<BR> NE1000,NE2000,3C503,WD/SMC80xx Ethernet
adapt
ed0 10<BR>0x280<BR> Fujitsu
MD86960A/MB869685A Ethernet
adapters
fe0<BR>0x300<BR> AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100,3C507,NI5210
Ether
ie0<BR>10 0x300<BR> DEC Etherworks 2
and 3 Ethernet adapters<BR>le0
5 0x300<BR> Isolan, Novell
NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet adapt<BR>lnc0
10 0x280<BR> SMC/Megahertz Ethernet
adapters<BR>sn0 10
0x300<BR><BR>Communications:<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio2<BR> 8250/16450/16550 Serial
port<BR>sio3<BR>Input:<BR>
Multimedia:<BR>Miscellaneous:<BR> PC-card
controller<BR>pcic0 10
0x3e0<BR> PC-card
controller<BR>pcic1<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>----------------------<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>[Enter]
Expand device list [X] Expand all lists<BR>[TAB]
Switch
fields
[Q] Save and Exit [ ? ]
Help<BR><BR>5) I hit Q and then the probe starts. I see messages scrolling by
for about<BR>15 seconds and then I<BR>see I big blue screen (of death!) and it
says:<BR><BR>"Probing Devices.... (This may take a while)"<BR><BR>and the
process comes to a grinding halt. I waited several times for more<BR>than 30
minutes<BR>and then I had to do a hard boot.<BR><BR>I have no fancy devices
attached to my PC except for those that I already<BR>mentioned
above.<BR><BR>No matter what combinations I tried, I always got the blue
screen.<BR><BR>Unfortunately, my CD-ROM is not attached to the Secondary
Master but rather<BR>to Secondary Slave. There is no device at Secondary
Master. So, I removed<BR>the CD-ROM from PC and I made two install
floppy diskettes and tried the<BR>install process and I get same exact blue
screen!<BR><BR>Does some one know what's wrong with my computer? Please let me
know if you<BR>need any extra information.<BR>Any help will be highly
appreciated.<BR><BR>Thanks in advance!</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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