From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 07:49:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF8A16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:49:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dd2626.kasserver.com (dd2626.kasserver.com [81.209.184.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8657A43D1F for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:49:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from duality.bytephobia.de (pD95F0810.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.8.16]) by dd2626.kasserver.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4101E697AD; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:48:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:51:45 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann To: Doug White Message-Id: <20040623095145.64df8349@duality.bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <20040622145703.E79584@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040622145703.E79584@carver.gumbysoft.com> Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Vinod Kashyap Subject: Re: Problems installing Fre*BSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: outi@bytephobia.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:49:04 -0000 On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Vinod Kashyap wrote: > > > > > Looks like you cannot reboot after an install since the > > driver is not part of the OS you just finished installing. > > > > This is what you can do: > > > > 1. While installing the OS, load the driver from a floppy > > (sysinstall->Configure->KLDLoad). You are probably already > > doing this. > > 2. After installation, during reboot, escape to the loader > > prompt, and again with a floppy with the driver inserted, > > load the driver by doing 'load disk0:twa.ko'. > > 3. Do a 'boot' and you should be able to boot. > > Vinod, the problem is that loader itself is crashing. It dies before you > even get the loader prompt. Its as if the BIOS is not reading the array > properly and returns bad data, or the BIOS is corrupting memory during > certain reads. > > There are known cases where turning on DMA in the BIOS can cause BTX > panics due to overly-promiscuous BIOS code, but this doesn't seem to be > one of those cases. > Due to little time i was not able to contact 3ware-support yet. But i tried to install that thing one more time. This time i downloaded a new 4.10 image and installed with that. boot-loader _does_ work with freebsd 4.10 although it page-faults later on boot. with 4.10 i can get to loader-prompt. 4.10 has twa build in, right? it's not mentioned in the hardware-notes on freebsd.org. i was able to load twa.ko of a disk in loader, but that is quite unuable as twa is already build into generic-kernel. -- =========================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi at bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook