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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2001 17:25:41 -0400
From:      cjm88@home.com
To:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Install problems, BOOT FAILURE after  freshinstallation
Message-ID:  <3AFDAA55.90BA01A1@home.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105121957001.90903-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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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.

Good Luck

C



"Hartmann, O." wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have the follwoing problem:
>
> Server box with hardware as decribed below:
>
> ASUS A7V, AMD TBird 850 MHz, 512 MB RAM (2x 256 MB PC133 ECC),
> Intel EtherExpress NIC, LSI Logic 21040-33 Ultra 160 SCSI adapter
> and three IBM drives, as shown in the dmesg-output below. This
> configuration works very well and stable.
>
> Now we would like to change the harddrives and I got two IBM DDYS 18GB drives,
> new, fresh low level formatted.
>
> After booting from the last FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ISO image CD I installed
> on the first hard drive two slices and set the first one bootable (Option A).
> All the others were installed the usual way and when sysinstall asks for
> how to leave the bootblock I tell it to install a "normal bootblock". So far.
> I can see how fast the installation proceeds and after rebooting I run into
> the problem that there is no bootblock.
>
> For the first time I tried to reduce the clock of the Ultra160 SCSI controller
> so it should work with 80,40 or 20 MB/s, but that did not work either. As you can
> see, the working configuration operates at 40 MB/s maximum, SE, not LVD.
>
> Has anyone any idea what's going wrong? If it should be asured that the hardware
> is faulty (as it seems the first view to me) I should check more sophisticated
> next time, but if there is a known problem in FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE in installing boot=
> blocks you should inform me.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
>
> O. Hartmann
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #63: Wed May  2 16:13:51 CEST 2001
>     root@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de:/usr/system/obj/usr/vol1/src/sys/MAIL
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193153 Hz
> Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 857615836 Hz
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (857.62-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x642  Stepping = 2
>   Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
>   AMD Features=0xc0440000<<b18>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
> real memory  = 536788992 (524208K bytes)
> avail memory = 518852608 (506692K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0390000.
> ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1106 device=8305)> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib2
> pci1: <Matrox MGA G200 AGP graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
> isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> pci0: <VIA Apollo ATA controller> at 4.1
> pci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> at 4.2 irq 15
> pci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> at 4.3 irq 15
> fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xa400-0xa43f mem 0xe0800000-0xe08fffff,0xe1000000-0xe1000fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
> fxp0: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:4c:2e:9c
> sym0: <1010-33> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xdf800000-0xdf801fff,0xe0000000-0xe00003ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
> sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-80, SE, parity checking
> sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
> sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
> sym0: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS.
> sym1: <1010-33> port 0x9800-0x98ff mem 0xde800000-0xde801fff,0xdf000000-0xdf0003ff irq 10 at device 12.1 on pci0
> sym1: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-80, SE, parity checking
> sym1: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
> sym1: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
> sym1: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS.
> sym1: SCAN AT BOOT disabled for targets 0 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15.
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x105a, dev=0x0d30) at 17.0 irq 10
> pcib1: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> sc0: <System console> on isa0
> sc0: VGA <8 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio1: type 16550A
> ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x8 on isa0
> ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode
> ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> ppc1: <Parallel port> at port 0x278-0x27f irq 5 flags 0x8 on isa0
> ppc1: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode
> ppi1: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus1
> DUMMYNET initialized (010124)
> IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, unlimited logging
> IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
> Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered.
> (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered.
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> cd0 at sym1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> cd0: <TEAC CD-ROM CD-532S 1.0A> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16)
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> cd1 at sym1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> cd1: <PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-R412C 1.07> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8)
> cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <IBM DCAS-34330W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
> da1: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)
> da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM DCAS-32160W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
> da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C)
> da2 at sym0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <IBM DDRS-39130W S97B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da2: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da2: 8715MB (17850000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1111C)
> link_elf: symbol splash_register undefined
> fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
> ---------------------------
>
> --
> MfG
> O. Hartmann
>
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