Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:07:35 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709180328.023f5c58@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860707091420j42d0a4b9l3f8187cb28021af5@mail.gmail.co m> References: <a9f4a3860707091343w777104fave47aedf9177b76f7@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <a9f4a3860707091420j42d0a4b9l3f8187cb28021af5@mail.gmail.com>
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At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>>
>> At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>>
>>I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows
>> XP with no issues.
>>
>> However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any
>> of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing
>>
>> The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of
>> different disk arrangements, with no success.
>>
>> I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS
>> detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it
>> detects no hard drive.
>>
>> I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL
>> 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB
>> Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files
>> to disk.
>>
>> Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my
>> friend on this one.
>>
>> I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular
>> luck, but I could be missing something.
>> Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the
>>Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these
>>chips and FreeBSD!
>>
>> Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard?
>>
>> -Derek
>
>Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did -
>that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the
>one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects
>it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine.
Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive?
On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the
hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order. I
know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all
possibilities. I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive
installation. After you had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to
clear it out?
-Derek
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