From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 13:52:24 2002 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 4648337B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F9B43E09 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jj@alicia.nttmcl.com) Received: (from jj@localhost) by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g65Kq0J28441; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:52:00 -0700 From: Shannon -jj Behrens To: Mats Dufberg Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel panic connected to IDE and 4.6 Message-ID: <20020705135200.A28000@alicia.nttmcl.com> Mail-Followup-To: Shannon -jj Behrens , Mats Dufberg , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from dufberg@nic-se.se on Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:54:32PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a similar problem on my old laptop. I fixed it by 1) Using a snapshot of STABLE. 2) Checking for IRQ conflicts and turning things off in BIOS. Best Regards, -jj > FreeBSD 4.6 crashes with kernel panic as soon as sysinstall tries to probe > the hardware during installation. > > Or if 4.6 is installed by some work-around, it crashes with kernel panic > if sysinstall is run and there is more than one IDE unit attached. Or it > crashes directly at boot-up when the system tries to mount disk if more > than one IDE unit is installed on the primary channel. > > Motherboard: ASUS P55T2P4D with dual-pentium 150MHz. > > IDE-chip: CMD 646 > > There has been no problems with FreeBSD 4.5. > > If sysinstall from 4.5 is used for 4.6, FreeBSD seems to be installed > correctly. > > Yes, the floppies and the installation CD with 4.6 has been successfully > used for installation on another computer (in that case with one harddisk > on primary IDE channel and on CD player on the secondary IDE channel). > > Yes, I do have another problem. Even though both the disk and the IDE chip > support DMA, the disk is mounted in PIO mode. The system tries DMA mode, > but falls back to PIO mode after serveral trials. -- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message