Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 02:43:50 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "CS Reddy" <creddy@qwest.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 Installation saga!! Message-ID: <001701c0d7a3$631d9ca0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <001f01c0d75c$ed1f2be0$0200000a@voicestream.com>
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If the system hangs at that point it usually means that it's probed some piece of hardware that has frozen up the system. It could be anything but most likely it's gotten to the IDE controller and attempted to access the disks and hung there. This is a tough one, in my opinion made worse because the current IDE driver (ata) attempts to enable all sorts of go-fast stuff like DMA and such, and doesen't seem to have support for just setting it to PIO mode as a boot option. You might just for grins make up a FreeBSD boot diskette that has the ata driver replaced with the wd driver. There is a complicated process to do this and you need a running FreeBSD system. Another option is booting from a FreeBSD 2.2.8 install floppy and seeing if it successfully completes the boot process and switches to the sysinstall screen. If either of those successfully probes the IDE disk, and you can partition and all of that, then the simple problem is that ata does not support your IDE controller chipset, or ata has a bug in the support for your IDE controller chipset. While it may be possible to use the wd driver, which uses the ST-506 interface, you probably won't be able to use this with a 20GB IDE disk. Your best shot is documenting everything and submitting as a PR. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of CS Reddy Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 6:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 Installation saga!! Hi all! I have been trying to install FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 on my PC for over a month. No luck so far. This is a long story. So, please bear with me. Let's start with my hardware configuration : - Compaq Deskpro EN Series (Intel 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM) - Intel Pro/100+ Alert on LAN* Management Adapter - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port) 0x2000 - 0x203F - ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port) 0x1000 - 0x1FFF, 0x03B0 - 0x03BB, 0x03C0 - 0x03DF - Intel 82443BX Chipset and Pentium II Procesor to AGP Controller - (I/O Port) 0x1000 - 0x1FFF, 0x03B0 - 0x03BB, 0x03C0 - 0x03DF - Intel 82371AB/EB (ISA, IDE Controller, USB-UHCI) - IRQ 11 - (I/O Port) 0x2060 - 0x206F for IDE - (I/O Port) 0x2040 - 0x205F for USB - Keyboard - IRQ 1 - (I/O Port) 0x0060 - 0x0060, 0x0064 - 0x0064 - PS/2 Mouse - IRQ 12 - Two Hard Disks (Disk1 -Primary Master- Western Digital-20GB and Disk2 -Primary Slave - Maxtor - 30GB) both attached to my primary IDE Channel - IRQ 14 - (I/O Port) 0x01F0 - 0x01F7, 0x03F6 - 0x03F6 - Memorex 48 X CD-ROM (ATAPI) - Secondary Slave - Secodary IDE Channel - IRQ 15 - (I/O Port) 0x0170 - 0x0177, 0x0376 - 0x0376 - Standard Floppy Controller - IRQ 6 - (I/O Port) 0x3F0 - 0x3F5, 0x3F7 - 0x3F7 - ESS 1868 Audio Device - IRQ 5 - (I/O Port) 0x0220 - 0x022F, 0x0388 - 0x038B, 0x0330 - 0x0331 - Serial Port 1 - IRQ 4 - (I/O Port) 0x03F8 - 0x03FF - Serial Port 2 - IRQ 3 - (I/O Port) 0x02F8 - 0x02FF - 1 Parallel Port - IRQ 7 - (I/O Port) 0x0378 - 0x037F, 0x0778 - 0x077D - CMOS - IRQ 8 - (I/O Port) 0x0070 - 0x0071 - Numeric Data Processor - IRQ 13 - (I/O Port) 0x00F0 - 0x00FF - U.S. Robotics Fax PCI Win Modem - IRQ 11 - 0x2070 - 0x2077 As far as I can see, I don't think I have any unsupported hardware except for my WinModem, which I don't use any way. I have DSL connection. Now, Software Inventory on my PC: - DISK 1 has WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.1 and this disk is completely full - DISK 2 is brand new and has nothing on it. I want to install FreeBSD here, on this disk. Now, my installation process (If this is not legible on your screen, please take a look into the TEXT ATTACHMENT, FreeBSD_saga.txt): 1)Start the Install Process from my CD-ROM. 2)Start kernel configuration in full screen Visual mode. 3)I get 7 Hardware Conflicts. This is what I see after expanding all nodes: ---Active-Drivers------------------------------------7 Conflicts-------Dev---IRQ--Port-- Storage: AdvanSys SCSI narrow controller adv0 Adaptec 154x SCSI controller aha0 Adaptec 152x SCSI controller aic0 ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller ata0 14 0x1f0 ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller ata1 15 0x170 Buslogic SCSI controller bt0 Floppy disk controller fdc0 6 0x3f0 Network: IBM EtherJet, CS89x0-based Ethernet adapters CONF cs0 0x300 NE1000,NE2000,3C503,WD/SMC80xx Ethernet adapt CONF ed0 10 0x280 Fujitsu MD86960A/MB869685A Ethernet adapters CONF fe0 0x300 AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100,3C507,NI5210 Ether CONF ie0 10 0x300 DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet adapters CONF le0 5 0x300 Isolan, Novell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet adapt CONF lnc0 10 0x280 SMC/Megahertz Ethernet adapters CONF sn0 10 0x300 Communications: Parallel Port chipset ppc0 7 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio0 4 0x3f8 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio1 3 0x2f8 Input: Keyboard atkbd0 1 PS/2 Mouse psm0 12 Syscons console driver sc0 Multimedia: Miscellaneous: PC-card controller CONF pcic0 10 0x3e0 Math coprocessor npx0 13 0xf0 ---Inactive-Drivers--------------------------------------------------Dev---- -------------------- Storage: Network: Communications: 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio2 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio3 Input: Multimedia: Miscellaneous: PC-card controller pcic1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Enter] Expand device list [X] Expand all lists [TAB] Switch fields [Q] Save and Exit [ ? ] Help 4)I tried several possible combintions to resolve the conflicts, starting from removing only the hardware that is causing conflicts and does not exist on my PC to just bare bones configuration. One such example is shown below: ---Active-Drivers-----------------------------------------------------Dev--- IRQ--Port-- Storage: ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller ata0 14 0x1f0 Floppy disk controller fdc0 6 0x3f0 Network: Communications: Parallel Port chipset ppc0 7 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio0 4 0x3f8 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio1 3 0x2f8 Input: Keyboard atkbd0 1 PS/2 Mouse psm0 12 Syscons console driver sc0 Multimedia: Miscellaneous: Math coprocessor npx0 13 0xf0 ---Inactive-Drivers--------------------------------------------------Dev---- -------------------- Storage: AdvanSys SCSI narrow controller adv0 Adaptec 154x SCSI controller aha0 Adaptec 152x SCSI controller aic0 ATA/ATAPI compatible disk controller ata1 15 0x170 Buslogic SCSI controller bt0 Network: IBM EtherJet, CS89x0-based Ethernet adapters cs0 0x300 NE1000,NE2000,3C503,WD/SMC80xx Ethernet adapt ed0 10 0x280 Fujitsu MD86960A/MB869685A Ethernet adapters fe0 0x300 AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100,3C507,NI5210 Ether ie0 10 0x300 DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet adapters le0 5 0x300 Isolan, Novell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet adapt lnc0 10 0x280 SMC/Megahertz Ethernet adapters sn0 10 0x300 Communications: 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio2 8250/16450/16550 Serial port sio3 Input: Multimedia: Miscellaneous: PC-card controller pcic0 10 0x3e0 PC-card controller pcic1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Enter] Expand device list [X] Expand all lists [TAB] Switch fields [Q] Save and Exit [ ? ] Help 5) I hit Q and then the probe starts. I see messages scrolling by for about 15 seconds and then I see I big blue screen (of death!) and it says: "Probing Devices.... (This may take a while)" and the process comes to a grinding halt. I waited several times for more than 30 minutes and then I had to do a hard boot. I have no fancy devices attached to my PC except for those that I already mentioned above. No matter what combinations I tried, I always got the blue screen. Unfortunately, my CD-ROM is not attached to the Secondary Master but rather to Secondary Slave. There is no device at Secondary Master. So, I removed the CD-ROM from PC and I made two install floppy diskettes and tried the install process and I get same exact blue screen! Does some one know what's wrong with my computer? Please let me know if you need any extra information. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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