Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 22:13:30 -0400 From: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Morgan Davis" <mdavis@cts.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from BSDI 2.1 -> FreeBSD 2.2.6 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980525221330.0092b610@mail.kersur.net> In-Reply-To: <199805252352.QAA14532@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 23:44:09 PDT." <000c01bd87a8$84e7ef50$24ae44c6@iopc.cts.com>
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At 04:52 PM 5/25/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> I inherited the duty of upgrading a working BSDI 2.1 system to FreeBSD >> 2.2.6, but am having trouble getting sysinstall to come up properly. First, >> here's the BSDI 2.1 dmesg output: >... >> bha0: warning, interrupts not working, using polling > >This is fatal; we require interrupts to work for the Buslogic >controller. Check the controller configuration, and also check the >FreeBSD verbose boot probe output (boot with -v). You can scroll back >to see this once sysinstall comes up - hit Scroll Lock and use the >cursor keys... > >The controller may be faulty, or you may have disabled PCI interrupts >for the slot it's in (depending on the system in question). Check your motherboard also. I've been burned by a motherboard where not all of the PCI slots supported busmastering, and saw this same problem (albeit with Linux, not FreeBSD, but the basic outcome was the same anyway...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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