From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 06:10:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EBB16A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B429B43D55 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:10:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5P6AsWA041816; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:40:55 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:40:44 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2363580.fX6dWphaP4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Subject: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:10:58 -0000 --nextPart2363580.fX6dWphaP4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 R= AID=20 controller (in mirror). The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump)= =20 but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record wha= t=20 the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which=20 makes it unreadable :( I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and g= ot=20 the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the=20 motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID=20 controller. It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installe= d=20 it boots from the RAID card just fine (!) I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method=20 doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/ Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem? Thanks. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart2363580.fX6dWphaP4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvPVq5ZPcIHs/zowRAvFQAJ9iXr1a8Ln8jY8LRcAWiBuwx2MZXACfQ3Nq MuIEsvd/u2Fom7vBDZN3tuc= =waX9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2363580.fX6dWphaP4--