Re: FreeBSD Install Problem
Not saying your suggestion won't work but… The last time I had to flip the SATA mode in a BIOS to Compatibility (sometimes labeled "Legacy" or "IDE" mode) was when I was installing FreeBSD-4.11 on an Intel S5000PSL/R. I don't think I've come across a machine that required me to change the SATA mode before installing FreeBSD 9. The OP may have said he tried sysinstall approaches but unless he specifically said he tried Druid, it actually implies he was comparing FreeBSD 8 media to FreeBSD 9's. This is naturally not a fair fight because both install media are using different kernels. That's why I recommend that you try a sysinstall based installer that's actually built from/for 9.0-RELEASE. It will boot with a 9.0 kernel and use sysinstall to automatically set up the system. Trying FreeBSD Druid will put the two installers (sysinstall v bsdinstall) on the same ground using the same kernel, so we'll be able to tell if its your hardware or the installer. -- Devin On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Dale Scott wrote: > Check the SATA drive mode in the BIOS. It may need to be set to > "Compatibility" (or vice versa). > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of dte...@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 6:20 PM > To: 'Chris Neudorf'; questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: FreeBSD Install Problem > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf >> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM >> To: questi...@freebsd.org >> Subject: FreeBSD Install Problem >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 Releaseon my Lenovo Thinkpad >> R61i laptop (4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 32-bit). It doesn't matter if I tried >> installing > it from >> the CD or the DVD, I still have the same problem. I even tried >> re-downloading > and >> re-burning a new CD or DVD, and I'm still unable to install. I even >> have > problems >> going through the "sysinstall" route. >> > > Can you try the following? > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/druidbsd/files/FreeBSD-9.0_Druid-1.0b57.iso/ > down > load > > NOTE: New version posted just a couple days ago (but not announced yet; > in-progress). > -- > Devin > > >> >> In the installation process, I'm able to go far to the partitioning area > in > where the >> problem occurs. I click for "Guided" partitioning and then I receive this > "Abort" >> message: >> >> Abort >> -- >> >> An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the > installation or >> exit the installer? >> >> > > > --- >> [ Restart ] [ Exit ] >> >> - >> >> When I click restart I end up with the same result, and I end up in a > neverending >> cycle of unable to install. >> >> >> (I even have a the same problem installing from GhostBSD.) >> >> >> >> Is there any remedies to this problem? >> >> >> Thank you so much, >> >> --Christopher >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _ > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the > message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message > in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please > be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving > and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: FreeBSD Install Problem
Check the SATA drive mode in the BIOS. It may need to be set to "Compatibility" (or vice versa). -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of dte...@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 6:20 PM To: 'Chris Neudorf'; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Install Problem > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM > To: questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD Install Problem > > Hello, > > I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 Releaseon my Lenovo Thinkpad > R61i laptop (4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 32-bit). It doesn't matter if I tried > installing it from > the CD or the DVD, I still have the same problem. I even tried > re-downloading and > re-burning a new CD or DVD, and I'm still unable to install. I even > have problems > going through the "sysinstall" route. > Can you try the following? http://sourceforge.net/projects/druidbsd/files/FreeBSD-9.0_Druid-1.0b57.iso/ down load NOTE: New version posted just a couple days ago (but not announced yet; in-progress). -- Devin > > In the installation process, I'm able to go far to the partitioning area in where the > problem occurs. I click for "Guided" partitioning and then I receive this "Abort" > message: > > Abort > -- > > An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the installation or > exit the installer? > > --- > [ Restart ] [ Exit ] > > - > > When I click restart I end up with the same result, and I end up in a neverending > cycle of unable to install. > > > (I even have a the same problem installing from GhostBSD.) > > > > Is there any remedies to this problem? > > > Thank you so much, > > --Christopher > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: FreeBSD Install Problem
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM > To: questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD Install Problem > > Hello, > > I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 Releaseon my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i > laptop (4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 32-bit). It doesn't matter if I tried installing it from > the CD or the DVD, I still have the same problem. I even tried re-downloading and > re-burning a new CD or DVD, and I'm still unable to install. I even have problems > going through the "sysinstall" route. > Can you try the following? http://sourceforge.net/projects/druidbsd/files/FreeBSD-9.0_Druid-1.0b57.iso/down load NOTE: New version posted just a couple days ago (but not announced yet; in-progress). -- Devin > > In the installation process, I'm able to go far to the partitioning area in where the > problem occurs. I click for "Guided" partitioning and then I receive this "Abort" > message: > > Abort > -- > > An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the installation or > exit the installer? > > --- > [ Restart ] [ Exit ] > > - > > When I click restart I end up with the same result, and I end up in a neverending > cycle of unable to install. > > > (I even have a the same problem installing from GhostBSD.) > > > > Is there any remedies to this problem? > > > Thank you so much, > > --Christopher > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD Install Problem
On 09/07/12 23:10, Chris Neudorf wrote: An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the installation or exit the installer? --- [ Restart ] [ Exit ] - When I click restart I end up with the same result, and I end up in a neverending cycle of unable to install. (I even have a the same problem installing from GhostBSD.) Is there any remedies to this problem? In Bios is legacy support for sata enable? On some systems this is a problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD Install Problem
Hello, I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 Releaseon my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i laptop (4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 32-bit). It doesn't matter if I tried installing it from the CD or the DVD, I still have the same problem. I even tried re-downloading and re-burning a new CD or DVD, and I'm still unable to install. I even have problems going through the "sysinstall" route. In the installation process, I'm able to go far to the partitioning area in where the problem occurs. I click for "Guided" partitioning and then I receive this "Abort" message: Abort -- An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the installation or exit the installer? --- [ Restart ] [ Exit ] - When I click restart I end up with the same result, and I end up in a neverending cycle of unable to install. (I even have a the same problem installing from GhostBSD.) Is there any remedies to this problem? Thank you so much, --Christopher ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
> John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 > APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= > =20 > both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should= > =20 > suffice for now. > > =2D-=20 > John Baldwin IMO, the quick solution also requires that MAX_APICID in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/local_apic.c needs to be changed because lapic_create() checks if the passed apic_id > MAX_APICID. Also in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/mp_machdep.c checks in cpu_add() if the passed apic_id >= MAXCPU. There are a couple other checks in mp_machdep.c before converting to use the cpu_apic_ids[] array. I was curious, and wrote up a patch file with the potential minor changes for -current at http://www.casselton.com/~tinguely/acpicid.patch . I saw one more change needed to use on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. --Mark Tinguely ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
On Monday 23 April 2007 02:51:19 pm Mark Tinguely wrote: > > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > > APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 > > APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= > > =20 > > both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should= > > =20 > > suffice for now. > > > > =2D-=20 > > John Baldwin > > IMO, the quick solution also requires that MAX_APICID in > [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/local_apic.c needs to be changed > because lapic_create() checks if the passed apic_id > MAX_APICID. > > Also in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/mp_machdep.c checks in cpu_add() > if the passed apic_id >= MAXCPU. There are a couple other checks > in mp_machdep.c before converting to use the cpu_apic_ids[] array. > > I was curious, and wrote up a patch file with the potential minor changes > for -current at http://www.casselton.com/~tinguely/acpicid.patch . > I saw one more change needed to use on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. What I have so far is somewhat similar, but goes ahead and allows the full range of APIC IDs while trying to still honor MAXCPU correctly. I haven't ported it to i386 yet, nor compiled it yet, much less booted it. :) I hope to at least get it booted on amd64 today. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11:32 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could > > that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? > > > > Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am suggesting that, I > > can think of headaches of all the places (like interrupt tables) > > where it needs to be changed, not to mention the worry that the > > lower APIC IDs were assigned to IOAPICs. > > I don't know, you'd have to ask jhb@ about the details. APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should suffice for now. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
Thanks all, We will look into the code editting and see what we can get however we are on an very short time frame so may not be able to slot it in before a maintenance slot where we need to be able to drop in the box 'seamlessly' . But I have noted the proposed fix provided on these lists into the red book! mjt > -Original Message- > From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 3:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Murray Taylor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem > > > > > If you can either install without ACPI, or remove two of the CPUs > > during installation, this should be fairly easy to fix: change the > > definition of NLAPICS in > /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/acpica/madt.c and > > rebuild your kernel, then boot with ACPI enabled and report back to > > us. > > > > DES > > --=20 > > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the > apic_id. Or could > that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? > > Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am suggesting that, I > can think of headaches of all the places (like interrupt tables) > where it needs to be changed, not to mention the worry that the > lower APIC IDs were assigned to IOAPICs. > > --Mark Tinguely > --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
Thanks Jerry, We have determined that our problem is related to the god-awful mess known as ACPI. With a single processor installed, it all boots fine, including finding PCI busses 1 and 2 and the raid on the aac driver is peachy! With 2 or more processors installed, and ACPI enabled, it panics with a madt error about id 38 is greater than the allowed max And with ACPI disabled, it boots, but doesnt find PCI busses 1 and 2, which is unfortunate as the RAID controller sits in PCI bus 1 and the bge inet interface seems to be on PCI bus 2 So at present we are on the FC6 path, which is obviously much softer on the vagaries of ACPI and is ignoring the crap data returns. mjt > -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 12:40 AM > To: Murray Taylor > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > > > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > > CPU X 4: 40K2522 > > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > > > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this > machine and > > are running into a problem getting the operating system to > recognise the > > RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to > > installing the O/S. > > > > We have attempted various modifications to the boot > process, including > > the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, > > should provide support for this type of controller. > > I have only installed on a couple of raids and so don't know about > them all or even this one. So, this might not apply to your > situation. > But, I found that I had to study DMESG very carefully to find > out what > device to use for them. The system seemed to put out a lot > of messages > that looked like other device names but in the end there was just one > little line that pointed to the correct one.The most > recent one was > a Dell Perc 3i or something like that and I had to run the fixit and > study the boot messages to figure it out.I don't have that one > available to look at what it turned out to be, but it was more simple > than I first thought from all the stuff it wrote out. After mucking > with fixit a bit, then sysinstall seemed to figure it out OK. I don't > remember actually changing anything - just fishing around a while. > I may have run fdisk under fixit to look at things and maybe delete > some slices. > > So, rather than trying to change things right off, I would suggest > looking carefully at stuff and trying to determine what it is already > doing. > > Anyway, good luck, > > jerry > > > > > When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above > > modifications, the boot loader advises that this module > already appears > > to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it > > doesn't work either way (with or without the module > manually loaded). > > > > One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I > > attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it > freezes with the > > message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with > > ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a > possibility that a > > bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID > controller to have > > issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? > > > > That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the > path(s) we have > > been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can > provide would > > be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are > > prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. > > > > Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor > > > > Bytecraft Systems > > > > > > -- > > > > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It > > takes a > > touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite > > direction." > > --Albert Einstein > > --- > > The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive > > use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential > > and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, > > dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action > > in reliance upon this in
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could > that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? > > Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am suggesting that, I > can think of headaches of all the places (like interrupt tables) > where it needs to be changed, not to mention the worry that the > lower APIC IDs were assigned to IOAPICs. I don't know, you'd have to ask jhb@ about the details. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
> > If you can either install without ACPI, or remove two of the CPUs > during installation, this should be fairly easy to fix: change the > definition of NLAPICS in /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/acpica/madt.c and > rebuild your kernel, then boot with ACPI enabled and report back to > us. > > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am suggesting that, I can think of headaches of all the places (like interrupt tables) where it needs to be changed, not to mention the worry that the lower APIC IDs were assigned to IOAPICs. --Mark Tinguely ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
"Murray Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the > RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to > installing the O/S. > > We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including > the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, > should provide support for this type of controller. Excuse me for asking a stupid question, but did you define an array before attempting to install FreeBSD? The aac driver won't attach individual disks, it will only attached defined arrays. > When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above > modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears > to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it > doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded). The loader is correct, aac is included in GENERIC. > One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I > attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the > message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with > ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a > bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have > issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? It appears the server uses non-consecutive CPU numbers, and we use a static array with 32 slots, indexed by CPU number, to hold information about the CPUs (or rather the local APICs they contain). If you can either install without ACPI, or remove two of the CPUs during installation, this should be fairly easy to fix: change the definition of NLAPICS in /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/acpica/madt.c and rebuild your kernel, then boot with ACPI enabled and report back to us. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > CPU X 4: 40K2522 > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the > RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to > installing the O/S. > > We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including > the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, > should provide support for this type of controller. I have only installed on a couple of raids and so don't know about them all or even this one. So, this might not apply to your situation. But, I found that I had to study DMESG very carefully to find out what device to use for them. The system seemed to put out a lot of messages that looked like other device names but in the end there was just one little line that pointed to the correct one.The most recent one was a Dell Perc 3i or something like that and I had to run the fixit and study the boot messages to figure it out.I don't have that one available to look at what it turned out to be, but it was more simple than I first thought from all the stuff it wrote out. After mucking with fixit a bit, then sysinstall seemed to figure it out OK. I don't remember actually changing anything - just fishing around a while. I may have run fdisk under fixit to look at things and maybe delete some slices. So, rather than trying to change things right off, I would suggest looking carefully at stuff and trying to determine what it is already doing. Anyway, good luck, jerry > > When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above > modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears > to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it > doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded). > > One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I > attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the > message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with > ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a > bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have > issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? > > That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have > been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would > be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are > prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. > > Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor > > Bytecraft Systems > > > -- > > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It > takes a > touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite > direction." > --Albert Einstein > --- > The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive > use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential > and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, > dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action > in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities > other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you > received this in error, please inform the sender and/or > addressee immediately and delete the material. > > E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and > may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this > e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are > given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage > caused by such matters. > --- > > ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:26 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off the machine What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0 Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of the physical pci bus 1 Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs show pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2 along with their associated physical busses. Any help greatly welcomed --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off the machine What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0 Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of the physical pci bus 1 Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs show pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2 along with their associated physical busses. Any help greatly welcomed --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to installing the O/S. We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, should provide support for this type of controller. When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded). One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Are you creating an Array before you try the installation? What does the console show for the recognized hardware, and not recognized hardware? You can boot from CD and run dmesg to get this information. -Derek The array is already created... The hardware for the RAID array _and_ the bge interface are not found. Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:26 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off the machine What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0 Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of the physical pci bus 1 Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs show pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2 along with their associated physical busses. Any help greatly welcomed --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off the machine What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0 Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of the physical pci bus 1 Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs show pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2 along with their associated physical busses. Any help greatly welcomed --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to installing the O/S. We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, should provide support for this type of controller. When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded). One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to installing the O/S. We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, should provide support for this type of controller. When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded). One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Are you creating an Array before you try the installation? What does the console show for the recognized hardware, and not recognized hardware? You can boot from CD and run dmesg to get this information. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to installing the O/S. We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including the loading of an "aac" module, which according to the BSD website, should provide support for this type of controller. When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded). One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the message "cpu id 38 too high". However if I boot the boot loader with ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ?? That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"