Andreas Hauser wrote: > bsddiy wrote @ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:27:02 +0800: >> Chuck Tuffli wrote: >> >> > On 4/4/06, David Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is there any dragonflybsd .iso I can install on intel ICH7 >> >> south bridge based machine ? >> > >> > I was able to install 1.4 on a ECS PF5 Extreme (Intel 945 based w/ >> > ICH7). Using a SATA-II drive didn't work (NCQ maybe?), but I was able >> > to install the OS without any other trouble on a regular IDE drive. >> > Hope that helps. >> > >> > ---chuck >> >> Yes, it is Intel 945, and dual-core Pentium-D, the >> HDD is SATA disk, and supports NCQ, is this the problem ? > > NCQ on itself shouldn't matter. > What is the problem exactly? Maybe you can post the dmesg? > Or did the iso fail to boot at all? > > The only problem i had with SATA was that the boot0 couldn't > find the SATA drives so i had to use an ATA drive for the loader > but that was with another controller, not ICH7. > >
It is the kernel's problem, it did not find any disk/disc controller, dmesg looks like this: Mounting root from: cd9660:cd0c no such device 'cd' setrootbyname failed is_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Mount root from cd9660:acd0c no such device 'acd' setrootbyname failed iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Mounting root from cd9660:cd1c no such device 'cd' setrootbyname failed iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp ..
