Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:28:06 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will work... Mark Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID > controller (in mirror). > > The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump) > but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record what > the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which > makes it unreadable :( > > I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and got > the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the > motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID > controller. > > It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installed > it boots from the RAID card just fine (!) > > I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method > doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/ > > Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem? >
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