Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:26:59 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz>
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--nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:54, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because > > there is more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). > > Sounds like a promising possibility (good pun too) - as removing the :) > RAID card (in my case a Promise TX2000) certainly makes it go away. I find even disconnecting the drives so no RAID is detected works - ie it's= =20 not the presence of the card per se that is a problem. > Some other observations: > > 5.0 and 5.1 install CDs boot fine for me (have not tried 5.2), it is > only 5.3 and 5.4 (also today 6.0 CURRENT) that crash (reg dump ) or > reboot immediately. Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty o= f=20 systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only ISO= s)=20 and see how it goes. > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :) Thanks for your input. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvUaT5ZPcIHs/zowRAo1UAJ4myFtfSATlEQyptO8lD55lnAzPwACfWvLQ sOfU+7OP22ddYBvr8uE/pCQ= =1cLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1390593.HQt8KTtFJ4--
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