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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:39:48 -0500
From:      "Jaime Bozza" <jbozza@thinkburst.com>
To:        "'Tim Strike'" <tstrike@targetnet.com>, <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server
Message-ID:  <027201c23413$093caeb0$6401010a@bozza>
In-Reply-To: <E17XnUp-000Ovr-00@smtp.targetnet.com>

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By any chance, do you have plug and play enabled in the BIOS on these
systems, or (if they have USB) USB not being assigned an IRQ?  

I've had lockups with the more recent FreeBSD 4.x's that went away when
I set "Plug and Play OS" to "no" and assigned an IRQ to USB (at least
until I made my own kernel) before installing.  I couldn't tell you
which one of the settings actually fixed the problem.

Jaime


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Tim Strike
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:38 PM
To: scsi@freebsd.org; stable@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server


I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE on several i386 systems
(clones) that have dual SCSI and no IDE disks.  These systems are
currently running an older version of FreeBSD (3.3 through 3.5, I'm not
sure how they were installed as that pre-dates me tenure).

The installation of 4.6-RELEASE locks shortly after a message regarding
ppc0 (something to the effect of "ppc0: Parallel port not found"), when
I think it is looking for disk controllers or disk drives.  For kicks, I
tried 4.5-RELEASE as well, and it failed in the same way.  When I get a
chance, I'll try 4.4, 4.3 and 4.2 as well since those were the last
installations that I completed myself (on similar but not identical
hardware).

I've tried booting from floppy (to use a network install), and from both
SCSI and IDE CD-ROM.  I've tried the ATA workaround on the odd chance
that was the problem, but still no luck.

Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before?  Any ideas on how to
either fix it or get more information on what is going wrong (and what
it's trying to do just before lockup)?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards, -ts.

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