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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:53:56 -0400
From:      Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 5.2.1 boot-install
Message-ID:  <4A30B4AE-B49C-11D8-818D-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>
In-Reply-To: <54C692FE-B48F-11D8-818D-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>
References:  <54C692FE-B48F-11D8-818D-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>

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On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> I have used this technique with 4.9, and it worked.  On a machine i 
> wanted to install 5.2.1 on, it won't (this is a machine the 4.9 
> install worked on fine).  The boot process starts, and it locks up 
> ending with this in the bootup sequence:
> GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc2006560
> ad0: 19092MB <ST320014A> [38792/16/63] at ata0-masster UDMA100
> ata1-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY status=7f <READY, DMA_READY, DSC, 
> DRQ, CORRECTABLE, INDEX_ERROR> error=7f<UNCORRECTABLE, MEDIA_CHANGED, 
> NID_NOT_FOUND, MEDIA_CHANGE_REQUEST, ABORTED,NO_MEDIA,ILLEGAL_LENGTH> 
> LBA=0
>

Answering myself for the archives..

This *should* have worked and would have worked if not for a bug I had 
to workaround in 4.9 on that CDROM.  The CDROM is the only device on 
the bus, and if it were set to master, I kept getting ata1-master 
resetting ad infinitum; the jumper, once removed from the back of the 
CDROM drive, allowed 4.9 to work like a charm.  I remembered this after 
downloading and burning the bootonly ISO and having that fail with the 
same error...

Once I put the jumper back in to set the device to "master", the 5.2.1 
CD booted straight to sysinstall.

Something for people to keep in mind... :-)

-Bart



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