From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 19:19:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196CF106564A for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:19:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA688FC19 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.76] (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF8016FE45F; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:19:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4A412AB5.5090503@onetel.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:19:17 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ericr References: <7fc6c27a0906201100r1357b24o90fdfee0e1ed1277@mail.gmail.com> <200906201410.52907.kstewart@owt.com> <7fc6c27a0906231044x747e6c83n514c7f98e056df22@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7fc6c27a0906231044x747e6c83n514c7f98e056df22@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:19:20 -0000 ericr wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:00:45 am ericr wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As the subject says, I can't get the 7.2-RELEASE i386 CD to boot on a >>> system that has: >>> >>> Abit KV8 Pro (K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A1BC-26) motherboard with the most recent >>> BIOS - BIOS release 26 4/20/2007 >>> ( snip >>> Anyone have any suggestions, or should I file a PR? >> Did you follow the suggestion on the release announcement of using the >> other >> CDs and switching before you start the install. > > > Yes. None of the FreeBSD kernels will boot on this system. Doesn't matter > if I use the livefs disk, or the install disk, it only gets as far as > described above, then hangs. > > - ericrCan Try leaving it for a few minutes at the hang http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1705690+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090517.freebsd-questions I got mine going by putting the hard disk in another machine, installing fbsd on that and building a kernel with most stuff taken out, after which I could boot my motherboard with that hard disk. Once it was booting I kept putting drivers back into the kernel until I found what was stopping it (device sbp in my case). You can use an external usb caddy and another machine with capability to boot from usb to do the same thing. You might have to modify /etc/fstab. Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >