Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:40:44 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID controller (in mirror). The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump) but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record what the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which makes it unreadable :( I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and got the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID controller. It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installed it boots from the RAID card just fine (!) I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/ Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvPVq5ZPcIHs/zowRAvFQAJ9iXr1a8Ln8jY8LRcAWiBuwx2MZXACfQ3Nq MuIEsvd/u2Fom7vBDZN3tuc= =waX9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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