Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:20:00 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release Message-ID: <a9f4a3860707091420j42d0a4b9l3f8187cb28021af5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <a9f4a3860707091343w777104fave47aedf9177b76f7@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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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.
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