Did you disable the onboard SCSI in the PC bios before booting FBSD? You have never said where you got your FBSD install CD from. If you downloaded the 4.6-min.iso, did you run the checksum against it before you burned it to CD? I have had bad install CD's that I built myself using the downloaded ISO file and burned to CD. If this is how you acquired your install CD, considered it bad and re-download the ISO file from scratch, run the checksum to verify you have a good ISO file and re-burn your CD.
The basic install is delivered with irq conflicts built in. During the install process you have to resolve these conflicts by deleting the unused devices. Did you do that? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bertrand Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can't start installation on ASUS P2L97-S Dear all, I can't start FreeBSD installation either from CD, nor from Floppy. System hangs at hw probe in a fashion that i can't interprete. BIOS upgrade, removing physical hw equipment, disabling devices at bios level didn't helped at all (Please, have a look at history below for details). Please, notice also that: 1. Booting and installing Slackware Linux 8.1 CD on this system succeed without any problems 2. Booting an OpenBSD 2.9 install CD succeeded without any problems. I canceled the installation process, exiting fdisk and disklabel utilities without changes. I love :-) FreeBSD and would not like to changes OS while there is a chance to overcome this problem, which may result from a lack of knoledges of myself (i still consider my self as a newbe, although i made successfull FreeBSD installs on a few systems, including athlon, PIII, 586 and 486). Special thank's to Joe & Fhe for theire help. Kindest regards Bertand ---- Original Message ---- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Objet: RE: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:08:21 +0200 >Joe and Fhe, > >Many thanks for your answer. >Accordingly your tips, I eliminated as much hardware as possible, >reviewed jumper settings, bios setup, and made following 5 tests. > >Before doing it, I updated bios to the last production release for >this board, i,e: > AWARD Modular BIOS v4.51PG > Asus P2L97-S ACPI BIOS Revision 1005 > >IN ALL CASES, i had the same hangsup problem. My system hangsup at >probe. > >Test 1. >------- > ATA IDE-only, booting on CD disc 1 with: > 3c905 network adapter removed > PNPBios disabled > IDE disk as master on primary ctrlr > CD as master on secondary ctrlr > SCSI devices physicaly NOT connected at all > SCSI controler not removed because embeded on board > FreeBSD kernel config menu left untouched > >Test 2. >------- > ATA IDE-only, booting on CD disk 1, same as test 1 > with following changes: > IDE disk as master on primary ctrl > CD as slave on primary ctrl > >Test 3. >------- > ATA IDE-only, booting on Floppy discs, same as test 2 > with following changes: > CD reader physicaly not connected at all > >Test 4. >------- > Same as test 1, with following changes in order to read > earlyer screen messages: > All removable devices (except kbd) wendt removed from FreeBSD > kernel config menu > > I booted twice, with following options: > > 4.1 Normal boot > 4.2 'boot -v' option > > >4.1 normal boot messages reports: > > isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 > isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 > atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA 33 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at \ > device 4.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > uhci0: ... > pci-cfgintr-virgin: using routable interrupt 3 > pci-cfgintr: 0:4 INTD routed to irq 3 > usb0: ... > uhub0: ... > uhub0: ... > chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power ...> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 \ > on pci0 > ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xb000-0xb0ff \ > mem 0xe1000000-0xe1000fff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci0 > aic7880: Ultra Wide chanel A, SCSI ID=7, 16/253 SCBs > orm0: ... > atkbdc0: ... > vga0: ... > sc0: <system console> ... > sc0: VGA ... > > <HANGS HERE> (please, remember that all removable device wendt >removed) > > >4.2 boot -v reports: > > ... > (all disabled devices shown as disabled) > ... > isa-probe-children: probing PnP devices > > <HANGS HERE> (please, remember PnP bios is disabled in bios setup) > > >Test 5. >------- > SCSI only, ATA IDE controllers disabled at bios level, > boot on Floppies > ATA devices phisicaly not connected > > >Furthermore, checking output of dmesg after having booted with >slackware linux install cd, i could see that ata probe is done after >seting PCI latency to 64, sothat I repeated test 1 after having set >PCI latency to the same value at bios level. >This didn't helped either :-(( > >Maybe, this trouble has something to do with INT Lines A, B, C, D. >Unfortunatly, there are no options in order to map freely at bios >level those lines to choosen PCI devices. > >Any tips still wellcome :-) > >Again, many thanks for your hand. >kindest regards >Bertrand > > >---- Original Message ---- >De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >A: [EMAIL PROTECTED], >Objet: RE: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) >Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:21:04 -0400 > >>Lets use the 'process of elimination method' to debug your system. >>Remove SCSI control board and disk drive from system, Put ide disk >as >>master on primary cable and CD-drive as master on secondary cable. >>Be sure to set drive jumper to master and not CS cable select. >>Use pnpbios disabled. >>Try again. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bertrand >>Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:19 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s (ERRATA) >> >>Dear all, >>Regarding my previous message of yesterday, i changed my hardware >>and made some more testing. >> >>1. Hardware >>----------- >> Asus p2l97-s with adaptec 7880 and intel piix4 controllers >> 1x IDE disk (ST36531A - dosn't mater) >> 1x ATAPI CD-driver (Creative CD 5230E) >> 1x SCSI disk (DNES-309170W) >> 256Mb RAM >> >>2. Bios Settings >>---------------- >> With pnpbios enabled >> With pnpbios disabled >> With IDE as first boot device >> With SCSI as first boot device >> in all case, boot set to: "CDROM, C, A" >> >> Yesterday, I also tryed booting with floppies without greater >> success. >> >>3. FreeBSD 4.6 boot behaviour >>----------------------------- >> Booting from install disc 1 CDrom. >> >>3.1 BTX reports strange Bios drives (comments are my one): >>---------------------------------------------------------- >> BIOS drive A: is disk 0 >> BIOS drive B: is disk 1 >> BIOS drive C: is disk 2 # <--- !!! >> BIOS drive C: is disk 3 # <--- !!! >> BIOS drive D: is disk 4 >> >> Why drive C twice ? >> >>3.2 lsdev output >>---------------- >> Stoping boot process at boot prompt in order to launch lsdev. >> Here is the full output of this command: >> >> cd@0xff2c >> disk@0xef38 >> >> disk0: Bios drive A: >> disk0a: FFS >> disk0c: FFS >> disk1: Bios drive B: >> disk2: Bios drive C: >> >> int=0000 0000 err=0000 0000 efl=0001 0246 eip=0000 f99d >> eax=0000 0000 ebx=0009 4d28 ecx=0000 a000 edx=0000 0000 >> esi=0009 4ad4 edi=0009 4d10 ebp=0009 4aac exp=0009 4a74 >> cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 >> cs:eip=f7 75 fc 89 45 f8 89 d0 - 8b 4d 08 31 d2 f7 71 10 >> ss:esp=28 4d 09 00 4c 83 03 00 - 10 4d 09 00 84 40 09 00 >> BTX halted >> >> >>Any way to workaround this problem ? >>Many thanks in advance for your help >>Kindest regards >>Bertrand >> >> >> >>------------ Original message begins here >> >>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:31:02 +0200 >>From: "Bertrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: unable to boot install disc 1 on asus p2l97-s >> >>Dear all, >>I started a new FreeBSD 4.6 installation on an ASUS P2L97-s board >>with onboard Adaptec 7880 scsi as well as PIIX4 ATA-IDE controlers. >>On this system, IDE is only used for ATAPI CD Drive. >> >>Unfortunatly, there is no way to get sysinstall up and running. >>When I try to boot with either FreeBSD disc 1 CD, disc 2 CD or >>generated boot floppies, boot process hangsup right after having >>probed serial and parallel interfaces, whitch seems to indicate >>a failure of the ata devices probe. >> >>Please, notice also: >>I had the same behaviour after having completly disabled IDE at bios >>level. >>I had the same behaviour after trying with FreeBSD 4.5 boot CD. >>Hmm, finaly I had no problem at all trying to reinstall linux (!) >> >>Furthermore, i tryied to stop boot process at boot loader prompt, >>running lsdev in order to see what wendt wrong... the system >>crashed gracefully :( >>I have absolute no idea about interpreting the output below, >>after my signature. >> >>Would someone be nice enough in giving me some tips for resolving >>this issue ? >> >>Many thanks in advance >>Kindest regards >> >>Bertrand >> >>- ---------------------------------------------------------- >>Here is the output of lsdev: >> >>int=0000 0000 err=0000 0000 efl=0001 0246 eip=0000 f99d >>eax=0000 0000 ebx=0009 4d28 ecx=0000 a000 edx=0000 0000 >>esi=0009 4ad4 edi=0009 4d10 ebp=0009 4aac exp=0009 4a74 >>cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 >>cs:eip=f7 75 fc 89 45 f8 89 d0 - 8b 4d 08 31 d2 f7 71 10 >>ss:esp=28 4d 09 00 4c 83 03 00 - 10 4d 09 00 84 40 09 00 >>BTX halted >> >>- ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
