From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 2 16:35:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA17277 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA17270 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:35:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from george.lbl.gov (george-2.lbl.gov [131.243.2.12]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA15971; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov (8.6.10/8.6.5) id QAA10604; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:34:10 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:34:10 -0800 From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" Message-Id: <199701030034.QAA10604@george.lbl.gov> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/2321: installation panic before going to past-install menu Cc: freebsd-bugs@time.cdrom.com Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >} All my test systems are SCSI, and I've changed many many settings on >} them without this happening. :-( >} >} Ah well, something is clearly wrong, just to now find out what. >} >} Jordan >} >} > as far as i can tell the common elements are "boot -c" and a scsi bus. >} > >} > Jin Guojun Jordan jmb >} > boot -c ep0 irq 15 ?? ed0 irq 3 i/o 300 mem d4000 >} > scsi ncr aha3940 aha1542CP > >I will try to take scsi interface out and do the install again. >I may not be able to do this before the New Year since that ASUS board is >far away from me. >I have tried many combinations of SCSI cards, motherboards (except that ASUS) >with 3C509B ethernet cards to install 2.2-BATE, however, they are not panic. It is not that motherboard problem. It was caused by an empty SCSI chain. After I add a SCSI disk to the chain, the installation has completed no problem. As other messages we saw for this problem, it sounds like the SCSI code problem. -Jin