Re: Install failure for 7.0-RELEASE (Need help!)
I have an A7N266 that had issues with the nvidia driver loading before the loader prompt and causing a reboot. The same board also had issues with wired ethernet working reliably. I installed solaris 10 and then opensolaris 2008.05. Both worked well. I installed opensolaris as I wanted newer versions of some software. The hardware is well supported, only gnome is available, flash9 works well, and updating the system and packages is annoying. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Install failure for 7.0-RELEASE (Need help!)
No, it's not the cable. The cable works just fine, which is why I _am_ able to make it all the way down until late in the Stage 3 boot, *and* also why I _acn_m get all of the way down to the install menu (while using the same drive & cable) when I boot from an old 6.1-RELEASE install disk. I have also now checked that it isn't a problem with the CD ROM drive. I _was_ able to boot and get all of the way own to the install menu using the exact same CD _and_ the exact same CD ROM drive on a different Athlon XP based system that I have. So it seems clear to me that the problem is that 7.0-RELEASE just doesn't get along with the motherboard and/or chipset that happens to be in this one particular system. (Again, the motherboard is an ASUS A7N266-VM/AA I don't know offhand what chipset that has on it, but I do know that it has intergrated on-board graphics.) Lookie here! I'm apparently not the only one who has gotten this exact same problem, also with an Athlon XP 2000: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg190114.html Hummm... yea. OK. This is definitely NOT just me having this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113160 Seems that the real problem may have nothing at all to do with the READ_BIG errors on the CD ROM drive just prior to the point where the mountroot> prompt comes up. There is a whole 'nother problem that I was being distracted from by those CD read errors (which are apparenntly recoverable... at least as shown by a different Athlon system I have where I _can_ get to the 7.0 Install menu). Sigh. So I guess I'll have to file a real PR on this because the suggested "fix" for PR 113160 simply won't work for me... the BIOS on this particular ASUS motherboard has been "customized" by ASUS and it provides no way to disable the 15M-16M memory hole. :-( Major bummer. Regards, rfg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Install failure for 7.0-RELEASE (Need help!)
On Thursday 10 July 2008 23:50:36 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I have an older system that I've been running 6.1-RELEASE on for a > long long time now. I want to upgrade it to run 7.0-RELEASE. > (CPU => AMD Athlon XP 2000, Motherboard => ASUS A7N266-VM/AA.) > > OK, so I install a new hard drive (known good /practically new) and > I'm ready to do a fresh install of 7.0-RELEASE onto this fresh new > blank drive. > acd0: CDROM at ata1-master UDMA33 > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install. > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 Errm, so don't install from cd. You have a working 6.1 system. Use csup with /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile as your template, set a real host, change tag to RELENG_7_0, change prefix to /usr/RELENG_7_0/src, mkdir -p /usr/RELENG_7_0/src and get the source csup -L2 /path/to/standard-supfile. Format the new disk using the chapter on this topic from the handbook and make sure the slice is bootable. Mount the drive's root on /mnt, usr and var and whatever else you had partitions made for below that and read the entry in UPDATING under COMMON ITEMS that describes "To cross-install current onto a seperate partition". -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Install failure for 7.0-RELEASE (Need help!)
Have you tried mounting the iso on the existing system and using sysinstall to partition and install 7.0 on the new hard drive? There may be a problem with the ide controller or ide cable. Have you tried swapping cables? You could also do a minimal 6.3 install with no additional packages as you say that cd works. Then do 'freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade'. See the man page on freebsd-update. Afterwords either pkg_add -r, sysinstall, or use the ports to install packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
