From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 11:57:26 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 A2AD816A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:57:26 +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 858C843D1F for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:57:24 +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 j5PBvH7E043348; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:27:17 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark Kirkwood Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:26:59 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 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 11:57:26 -0000 --nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:54, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > 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. I find even disconnecting the drives so no RAID is detected works - ie it's= =20 not the presence of the card per se that is a problem. > 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. Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4. as I have installed plenty o= f=20 systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only ISO= s)=20 and see how it goes. > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :) Thanks for your input. =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 --nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvUaT5ZPcIHs/zowRAo1UAJ4myFtfSATlEQyptO8lD55lnAzPwACfWvLQ sOfU+7OP22ddYBvr8uE/pCQ= =1cLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4--