Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: Your best bet is to poll the mobile list (CC'd) to see if anyone was able to get FreeBSD working on this laptop (or even to know whether this is a lost cause till somebody makes some patches for this laptop). Since 7.2 also does not work and with 8.0-RELEASE being in it's final stages, it's unlikely you can get some priority from the developers for it being a regression bug. The acpi and missing disk can be related (most likely are), but unless you get at least a live FS working (even the USB image for 8.0-BETA2) it will be hard to get an acpidump(8). So this really depends on someone knowledgeable having this laptop or BIOS tricks that get you to a stage where more info can be gathered and saved/snapshot. Ok, I understand chances to have it running in the short term are not high :-) Anyway, and since I am replying to the mobile list, I am available to provide more information about the laptop. I have Linux running on it and I believe there is something similar to the acpidump (not sure if its the same tool as in FreeBSD or if their outputs are compatible) that I could use to provide some more details. Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ben Fallonbfal...@itbuildersinc.com wrote: Might want to take a look at this page as it may provide a bit more insight. The problem isn't with the Machine specifically but with the ATI Sata Controller/Chipset. Not sure if this has been fixed yet. http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-currentid=2740699 Uau! That's exactly the same problem with the same hardware, and I would be tempted to say that it _has not_ been solved yet. I'll try to contact those guys to try to get some more information. Thanks a lot for the pointer, Ben. Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
Might want to take a look at this page as it may provide a bit more insight. The problem isn't with the Machine specifically but with the ATI Sata Controller/Chipset. Not sure if this has been fixed yet. http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-currentid=2740699 -Original Message- From: Miguel [mailto:luis.hen...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:53 PM To: Ben Fallon Cc: freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ben Fallonbfal...@itbuildersinc.com wrote: What model of laptop is it? I just subscribed to the list yesterday and may have missed the beginning of this thread. You can also check here http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ It provides details for a bunch of laptops and what the findings were for the models they tested. On Linux, a simple dmesg will help on seeing what devices were found by your os otherwise, like BSD, the lspci also works the same. Sorry I can't help more without a bit more information. The complete thread can be read here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-August/203491.html My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A210-1CE, and I am attaching the information you requested: the output from lspci -v and dmesg. Hope it helps :-) Regards, Miguel ___ 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
Problems with FreeBSD installation
Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success. I started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error: No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller... Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first time on the FreeBSD world). I get lines such as: atapci0: ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller [...] atapci0: [ITHREAD] atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci0 ata5: [ITHREAD] [...] atapci1: ATI IPX600 UDMA 133 controller [...] ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata0: [ITHREAD] [...] (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upload to some URL if needed.) So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors: acpi0_check: nexus0 attached acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present ... in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the logs, but these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS, which unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed (I have a Toshiba Satellite A210). Anyway, I decided to try a more recent version of FreeBSD and downloaded 8.0-CURRENT-200906-amd64-disc1.iso which was the most recent snapshot for my Turion64 processor. Tried to boot it but this time the installation just freeze before the install application event starts. Last log lines are: acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec md0: Preload image /boot/mfsroot 4194304 bytes at 0x80fd8660 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD installation on my laptop. I am, of course, available to provide any additional information you might need to debug the issue. Thanks! -- Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success. I started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error: No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller... Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first time on the FreeBSD world). I get lines such as: atapci0: ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller [...] atapci0: [ITHREAD] atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci0 ata5: [ITHREAD] [...] atapci1: ATI IPX600 UDMA 133 controller [...] ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata0: [ITHREAD] [...] (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upload to some URL if needed.) So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors: acpi0_check: nexus0 attached acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present ... in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the logs, but these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS, which unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed (I have a Toshiba Satellite A210). [snip] acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec md0: Preload image /boot/mfsroot 4194304 bytes at 0x80fd8660 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD installation on my laptop. I am, of course, available to provide any additional information you might need to debug the issue. Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? It should be option 2 from the loader menu. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
Hi Glen, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success. I started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error: No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller... Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first time on the FreeBSD world). I get lines such as: atapci0: ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller [...] atapci0: [ITHREAD] atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci0 ata5: [ITHREAD] [...] atapci1: ATI IPX600 UDMA 133 controller [...] ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata0: [ITHREAD] [...] (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upload to some URL if needed.) So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors: acpi0_check: nexus0 attached acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present ... in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the logs, but these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS, which unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed (I have a Toshiba Satellite A210). [snip] acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec md0: Preload image /boot/mfsroot 4194304 bytes at 0x80fd8660 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD installation on my laptop. I am, of course, available to provide any additional information you might need to debug the issue. Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? It should be option 2 from the loader menu. Yes, I tried that already with same results. Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Glen, Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? It should be option 2 from the loader menu. Yes, I tried that already with same results. Can you try the installation media on another machine (to rule out a bad CD or bad burn)? Also, is it possible to upgrade the BIOS on the problem machine? -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Glen, Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? It should be option 2 from the loader menu. Yes, I tried that already with same results. Can you try the installation media on another machine (to rule out a bad CD or bad burn)? The CD image seems to be fine (both of them): I have installed them on a Linux kvm virtual machine and there were no problems -- both are able to do the complete installation and I am able to boot the resulting image. (Sorry, no other physical machines available at the moment.) Also, is it possible to upgrade the BIOS on the problem machine? I would love to upgrade my BIOS but I am unable to do that -- I have not Windows installed and my vendor requires Windows to be installed in order to perform the upgrade (yes, I know! I will never buy another laptop from them!) I have not tried 8.0-BETA (as someone on the IRC channel suggested) but not sure if it will make any difference. As far as I understand, the snapshot I tried is more recent than 8.0-BETA2. Or am I wrong? Is it worth downloading one more ISO just to try it? Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Glen, Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? It should be option 2 from the loader menu. Yes, I tried that already with same results. Can you try the installation media on another machine (to rule out a bad CD or bad burn)? The CD image seems to be fine (both of them): I have installed them on a Linux kvm virtual machine and there were no problems -- both are able to do the complete installation and I am able to boot the resulting image. (Sorry, no other physical machines available at the moment.) That's fine. At least you know the media / image are working. Also, is it possible to upgrade the BIOS on the problem machine? I would love to upgrade my BIOS but I am unable to do that -- I have not Windows installed and my vendor requires Windows to be installed in order to perform the upgrade (yes, I know! I will never buy another laptop from them!) No comment. :-) I have not tried 8.0-BETA (as someone on the IRC channel suggested) but not sure if it will make any difference. As far as I understand, the snapshot I tried is more recent than 8.0-BETA2. Or am I wrong? Is it worth downloading one more ISO just to try it? The -BETA, -BETA1, -BETA2 images are run the same way -RELEASE images are -- once the image is released, there are no further updates to it. That is why when you download a -RELEASE, any patches that may have been released afterwards are not reflected in the install image. For what it's worth, I tried the -BETA2 image on my laptop, and the ndis driver was causing panics. I used 7.2-RELEASE to install the OS, and rebuilt world/kernel from my build machine using NFS, and the panics went away. After rereading your original question, you were using a -CURRENT snapshot to install -- -BETA2 was released a few weeks ago. It may have the problem fixed, yes, but it is not guaranteed. To answer your question, is it worth downloading...: that depends. If you're willing to waste another CD if it fails, is up to you, but your problem may be fixed in -BETA2. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I have not tried 8.0-BETA (as someone on the IRC channel suggested) but not sure if it will make any difference. As far as I understand, the snapshot I tried is more recent than 8.0-BETA2. Or am I wrong? Is it worth downloading one more ISO just to try it? The -BETA, -BETA1, -BETA2 images are run the same way -RELEASE images are -- once the image is released, there are no further updates to it. That is why when you download a -RELEASE, any patches that may have been released afterwards are not reflected in the install image. For what it's worth, I tried the -BETA2 image on my laptop, and the ndis driver was causing panics. I used 7.2-RELEASE to install the OS, and rebuilt world/kernel from my build machine using NFS, and the panics went away. After rereading your original question, you were using a -CURRENT snapshot to install -- -BETA2 was released a few weeks ago. It may have the problem fixed, yes, but it is not guaranteed. To answer your question, is it worth downloading...: that depends. If you're willing to waste another CD if it fails, is up to you, but your problem may be fixed in -BETA2. Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the snapshot I tried. Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released. My problem with trying BETA2 is that it will take long time to get it (slow connection here) and most probably my problem will remain. Isn't there a way (an easy way, I mean!) to get a custom kernel from freebsd.org that I could replace in my ISO? Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the snapshot I tried. Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released. My problem with trying BETA2 is that it will take long time to get it (slow connection here) and most probably my problem will remain. Possible that it will remain - more probable that it has been fixed though. Isn't there a way (an easy way, I mean!) to get a custom kernel from freebsd.org that I could replace in my ISO? Not that I am aware of. -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the snapshot I tried. Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released. My problem with trying BETA2 is that it will take long time to get it (slow connection here) and most probably my problem will remain. Possible that it will remain - more probable that it has been fixed though. Hmm... Ok, I will try it then. Not sure if I am able to do this today, but I try it. Isn't there a way (an easy way, I mean!) to get a custom kernel from freebsd.org that I could replace in my ISO? Not that I am aware of. Right, I could not find it too. Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Miguelluis.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the snapshot I tried. Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released. My problem with trying BETA2 is that it will take long time to get it (slow connection here) and most probably my problem will remain. Possible that it will remain - more probable that it has been fixed though. Ok, some updates: I downloaded 8.0-BETA2 ISO and the result was exactly the same, i.e., system freezes during CD boot in the same point as before. This time I did not actually tried to install the CD on a virtual machine, but I can not believe it is a problem with the CD image ;-) This time I disabled _everything_ I could disable in my BIOS and selected several options from the boot manager: the default option, the option with ACPI disabled, the option safe-mode (or something like that...) and finally the verbose option, which gave me some more information. Here's the last messages I see in the console before freeze: start_init: trying /sbin/init start_init: trying /sbin/oinit start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak start_init: trying /rescue/init start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall And that's all. Any ideas? :-( Regards, Miguel ___ 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: Problems with FreeBSD installation
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:01:30 Miguel wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success. I started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error: No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller... Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first time on the FreeBSD world). I get lines such as: atapci0: ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller [...] atapci0: [ITHREAD] atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci0 ata5: [ITHREAD] [...] atapci1: ATI IPX600 UDMA 133 controller [...] ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata0: [ITHREAD] [...] (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upload to some URL if needed.) So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors: acpi0_check: nexus0 attached acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present ... in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the logs, but these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS, which unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed (I have a Toshiba Satellite A210). Anyway, I decided to try a more recent version of FreeBSD and downloaded 8.0-CURRENT-200906-amd64-disc1.iso which was the most recent snapshot for my Turion64 processor. Tried to boot it but this time the installation just freeze before the install application event starts. Last log lines are: acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec md0: Preload image /boot/mfsroot 4194304 bytes at 0x80fd8660 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD installation on my laptop. I am, of course, available to provide any additional information you might need to debug the issue. Your best bet is to poll the mobile list (CC'd) to see if anyone was able to get FreeBSD working on this laptop (or even to know whether this is a lost cause till somebody makes some patches for this laptop). Since 7.2 also does not work and with 8.0-RELEASE being in it's final stages, it's unlikely you can get some priority from the developers for it being a regression bug. The acpi and missing disk can be related (most likely are), but unless you get at least a live FS working (even the USB image for 8.0-BETA2) it will be hard to get an acpidump(8). So this really depends on someone knowledgeable having this laptop or BIOS tricks that get you to a stage where more info can be gathered and saved/snapshot. -- Mel ___ 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
problems with FreeBSD installation
I am attempting to test and see if the disc1 boot image works. I am not sure but it doesnt seem to work. I created a bootable and a non bootable CD rom with easy cd creator and it doesnt boot from the cd rom even though I do necessities to the BIOS, to boot from cd rom. Can anyone help? Greg _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: problems with FreeBSD installation
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, greg tibbetts wrote: I am attempting to test and see if the disc1 boot image works. I am not sure but it doesnt seem to work. I created a bootable and a non bootable CD rom with easy cd creator and it doesnt boot from the cd rom even though I do necessities to the BIOS, to boot from cd rom. Most often this is because people are taking the ISO file and saving it as one large file on a CD rather than using it as a binary image of the CD. For your software, you should be able to right-click on the FreeBSD ISO icon and select Make CD or whatever the option is called. If you drag and drop the ISO file, I don't think that will work. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
