From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 10:24:24 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 9E83916A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:24:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from linda-2.paradise.net.nz (bm-2a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.58.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5350843D49 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:24:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (smtp-1a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.194]) by linda-2.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0IIM00738Y8MH8@linda-2.paradise.net.nz> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:24:22 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-14-110.paradise.net.nz [218.101.14.110]) by smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4864828BE; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:24:21 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:24:19 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Daniel O'Connor Message-id: <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050511) References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz> <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 10:24:24 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hmm strange.. > I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few times > on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has > never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) > > I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there is > more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). > Sounds like a promising possibility (good pun too) - as removing the RAID card (in my case a Promise TX2000) certainly makes it go away. Some other observations: 5.0 and 5.1 install CDs boot fine for me (have not tried 5.2), it is only 5.3 and 5.4 (also today 6.0 CURRENT) that crash (reg dump ) or reboot immediately. That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). Cheers Mark