On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:31:35PM +0100, Dieter wrote: > > Finally, the behaviour you're experiencing with your machine (re: the > > progress bar stalling 2/3rds of the way through) sounds almost as if the > > hard disks aren't spinning up quick enough after a soft reset from > > within FreeBSD or Linux 2.4. > > The disks should have spun up long before a reset gets issued.
Not necessarily. It ultimately depends on what the system is engineered to do during a soft reboot. The disks themselves may be powering down briefly, may take a long time to initialise, or maybe there's a bug in the drive firmware. My personal guess is that it's a BIOS bug. > > > for some reason i cannot mount any sort of media in freebsd 7 systems. > > > the computer handles the booting of the cd's fine but freebsd cannot > > > for some reason handle the mounting of disks. > > It is the firmware (and maybe a bootstrap) that boots a CD. > Once control is handed over to the FreeBSD kernel, then the > kernel has to be able to talk to the disks. It is the FreeBSD 7 > kernel that is having the problem. Again, not necessarily. I think I've provided enough evidence of where BIOS settings can affect FreeBSD's behaviour when it comes to disk controllers. My RAID question was one such example. > > > the next step im going > > > to take is installing 6.2 and remaking the world but adding device > > > aptic to the kernel. > > > > I think you mean "device apic" to the kernel? > > No, it is "device aptic". It was in 6 but removed from 7. I had to add > aptic to get my nforce4-ultra board to boot 7. Given that 6 runs on > Shaun's machine and 7 doesn't, adding aptic is a useful thing to try. There is no "aptic" device on RELENG_6. I just did a grep -ri "aptic" /usr/src on our RELENG_6 box and found absolutely no trace of said device. You are thinking of "apic". -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
