From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 25 11:38: 0 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 71D3C37B400; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.targetnet.com (smtp.targetnet.com [205.150.0.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D417C43E67; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tstrike@targetnet.com) Received: from tim by smtp.targetnet.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17XnUp-000Ovr-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:37:55 -0400 To: scsi@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server Message-Id: From: Tim Strike Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:37:55 -0400 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'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE on several i386 systems (clones) that have dual SCSI and no IDE disks. These systems are currently running an older version of FreeBSD (3.3 through 3.5, I'm not sure how they were installed as that pre-dates me tenure). The installation of 4.6-RELEASE locks shortly after a message regarding ppc0 (something to the effect of "ppc0: Parallel port not found"), when I think it is looking for disk controllers or disk drives. For kicks, I tried 4.5-RELEASE as well, and it failed in the same way. When I get a chance, I'll try 4.4, 4.3 and 4.2 as well since those were the last installations that I completed myself (on similar but not identical hardware). I've tried booting from floppy (to use a network install), and from both SCSI and IDE CD-ROM. I've tried the ATA workaround on the odd chance that was the problem, but still no luck. Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before? Any ideas on how to either fix it or get more information on what is going wrong (and what it's trying to do just before lockup)? Any help is appreciated. Regards, -ts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message