From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 12 18:20:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECAF37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gc0.generalconcepts.com (CPE0080c8d41db5.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.101.230.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C0543E64 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsellens@generalconcepts.com) Received: (from jsellens@localhost) by gc0.generalconcepts.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g6D1Kan03388 for hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:20:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jsellens) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:20:36 -0400 (EDT) From: John Sellens Message-Id: <200207130120.g6D1Kan03388@gc0.generalconcepts.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting from Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI/IDE card? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have an old machine that was running FreeBSD 4.1.1, with a single disk, and I wanted to upgrade to something current. It has one of the RZ-1000 IDE controllers on board, so FreeBSD 4.6 installed just fine, and then failed to boot as it would not find the disk - it complains about the controller: "RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss possible". So, fine, get a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI/IDE adapter, put it in, connect the disk, install runs fine, finds the disk as ad4. Reboot, the controller finds the disk, the boot manager prompts: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 and then it hangs for a while and then says "Read error". I checked the troubleshooting guide, and it mentioned that I might need to set the disk geometry manually in the disk slice configuration. Tried that, same problem. Since the controller sees the disk, and I'm getting the boot manager prompt, I'm guessing that the boot manager is trying to boot off a non-existent onboard ad1 disk or something? Any suggestions? Or should I just break down and buy a better motherboard? Thanks very much! John jsellens@generalconcepts.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message