From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 13 11:40:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E21CA37B422; Sun, 13 May 2001 11:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Received: from klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4DIe5701744; Sun, 13 May 2001 20:40:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:40:05 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: Doug Russell Cc: , , Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Install problems, BOOT FAILURE after freshinstallation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 May 2001, Doug Russell wrote: In the morning I updated the firmware of the SCSI controller LSI Logic 21040 from 4.16-00 to 4.18-00. Since then both new IBM DDYS T18350N drives were detected as it should be. Before the update the controller found these drives, but did not enable LVD mode. It seems to be a classical controller <-> diskdrive conflict/problem. The same has been reported to DDYS 36GB drives and AMI Enterprise/Elite 1600 RAID controllers. Another problem occurs with FreeBSD 4.3 since the last cvsupdate this day (I did the last cvsupdate 12 days ago on that machine). The system has much trouble with drives connected to the second port an beeing 8 bit wide. :> :>On Sat, 12 May 2001 cjm88@home.com wrote: :> :>> I had the exact same problem with similar hardware. My problem arose it, seemed, because the drive I was using had been previously :>> dangerously dedicated. After multiple failed installs I decided to see if I could create a DOS partition and format it with the /S option. :>> That worked so I tried installing FreeBSD again and everything worked fine from that point on. :> :>You probably neglected to write a standard boot manager to the disk. This :>can be done in systinstall, but has historically not always worked :>correctly. (You select Standard boot manager, but it installs None...) :>You can also always boot with a DOS diskette and use 'fdisk /mbr' to write :>a standard bot manager to the disk, or copy the first sector from a good :>disk to the offending one using something like (bs=512 should be default): :> :>'dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1' :> :>I've had to do this more than once before. Perhaps this was your problem. :> :>Later...... :> :> -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message