Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
At 07:47 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of different disk arrangements, with no success. I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it detects no hard drive. I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files to disk. Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my friend on this one. I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular luck, but I could be missing something. Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? -Derek Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did - that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine. Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive? On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order. I know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities. I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation. After you had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out? -Derek I think I'll go beat my lackey again. He was supposed to remove the jumper, and didn't do it. I took it off, and it's installing happily to the IDE drive. I'm gonna bag the SATA for now. Thanks for your help, Kurt I'm glad I could help. As an FYI windows ignores a lot of hardware issues until it simply can't run anymore, where FreeBSD is much better at error checking. Of course sometimes that can make it frustrating. If you can get a decent SATA controller you might try adding or switching to SATA in the future, but avoid the Sil ones. -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]
Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
I think I accidently posted a reply to this via private mail with an invalid source address, but I'm not sure what I did, so I'll take this opportunity to apologize to anyone to gets this message twice. Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! That's interesting to me. Is there any further information available on that subject? I've been using SiL chips with Linux for quite a while with no problems, and I was planning to do the same with FreeBSD as well, but if there are known problems with SiL and FreeBSD I may need to rethink that decision. (To be more exact, I've been using the SiL 311[24] chips) Fredrik Tolf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! That's interesting to me. Is there any further information available on that subject? I've been using SiL chips with Linux for quite a while with no problems, and I was planning to do the same with FreeBSD as well, but if there are known problems with SiL and FreeBSD I may need to rethink that decision. (To be more exact, I've been using the SiL 311[24] chips) There are significant hardware defects with the SiliconImage 311x chips, which can mostly be worked around if you accept a loss of performance. These workarounds are implemented in both Linux and the BSDs, but details are available here: http://www.google.com/search?client=safarirls=enq=Silicon+Image+3112 +bugsie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 ...gives results such as: http://www.nabble.com/SII3512-rev0---t3995350.html -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of different disk arrangements, with no success. I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it detects no hard drive. I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files to disk. Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my friend on this one. I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular luck, but I could be missing something. Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? -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]
Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of different disk arrangements, with no success. I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it detects no hard drive. I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files to disk. Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my friend on this one. I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular luck, but I could be missing something. Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? -Derek Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did - that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of different disk arrangements, with no success. I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it detects no hard drive. I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files to disk. Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my friend on this one. I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular luck, but I could be missing something. Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? -Derek Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did - that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine. Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive? On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order. I know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities. I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation. After you had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out? -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]
Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release
On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of different disk arrangements, with no success. I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it detects no hard drive. I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files to disk. Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my friend on this one. I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular luck, but I could be missing something. Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? -Derek Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did - that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine. Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive? On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order. I know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities. I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation. After you had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out? -Derek I think I'll go beat my lackey again. He was supposed to remove the jumper, and didn't do it. I took it off, and it's installing happily to the IDE drive. I'm gonna bag the SATA for now. Thanks for your help, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
