From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 22:59:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA01824 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:59:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from phs.k12.ar.us (garman@[165.29.117.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01819; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from garman@localhost) by phs.k12.ar.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA16901; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:58:02 GMT Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:58:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jason Garman To: Will Hires cc: benedict@echonyc.com, questions@FreeBSD.org, grog@lemis.de, grog@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Missing file "atapi.flp" In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961124014709.006a94c8@pop.service.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Will Hires wrote: > > Okay. I'm now using the file, "boot.flp" from the CDROM. I get all the > way to the "Commit" dialog box, which executes to bring up a message > box indicating that installation is progressing. After a while, I see > the CDROM access light go on and a bottom-of-screen message that seems > to indicate that there is an attempt to transfer files from the CDROM > to the hard disk partition. Then, the entire system hangs up. After > about five minutes of nothing occurring, I have the only recourse of > rebooting with the system reset button. ****I'm stuck!*** Now what? > Later, you describe that you have three IDE devices: two HD's and one CD-ROM. I'm assuming that you have the HD you're trying to install FreeBSD on and the CD-ROM on different IDE interfaces (check your bootup messages to make sure; wcd0 should be on a different wdc device than the wd device that you're trying to install freebsd on) I'm guessing that, based on that info above, you're having the same problem I have: your IDE controller is buggy and doesn't like simultaneous accesses to both of its interfaces. A similar problem is described in a problem report in the gnats database but was never acted on. Does anyone know how to work around this btw? For me, I have a 2 gig drive that's on my second interface and every time i try to really access it my system hard freezes much like what happens above. It's not a hd problem; when the cd and hd are on the same ide interface it works fine. I have a CMD-640B on-board PCI ide controller. What do you have? Anyway, that's my assumptions about your problem. If that's not right, just ignore all that :-) > >> Also, the CD labeled "1" does not contain the files to boot the > >> binaries for the FreeBSD system. After several tries, the system > >> just "hangs" without completing the installation. > > Do you mean using the dos program `bootfbsd' or whatever off the CD to do a floppy-less boot? That never worked for me either... Back to your original question again, try to install FreeBSD on a hd that's on the same interface as your cdrom and see if that works. If so your controller is broken just like mine :-/ -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us