From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 25 12:12:29 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 838EF37B405; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF89A43E3B; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Scott_Long@adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g6PJCFr27830; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13529; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com (btcexc01 [10.100.0.23]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27416; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:12:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: by btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:12:13 -0600 Message-ID: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB046443@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> From: "Long, Scott" To: "'Tim Strike'" , scsi@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:12:12 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain 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 What kind of scsi subsystem do you have? Can you post the boot messages that occur up to the freeze? You might also stop the boot loader during the timeout and set the boot_verbose flag to '1' before booting. Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Strike [mailto:tstrike@targetnet.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:38 PM > To: scsi@freebsd.org; stable@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server > > > 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-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message