From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 7 12:18:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23BCE37BE3B for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 20984 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jun 2000 19:18:23 -0000 Received: from p3ee0b39d.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.224.179.157) by mail05.rzmi.gmx.net with SMTP; 7 Jun 2000 19:18:23 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18162 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:48:24 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:48:24 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 - RELEASE/STABLE and Asus PI-P55T2P4 Message-ID: <20000607204824.M9883@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from spork@super-g.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:47:10PM -0400 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 23:47 -0400, spork wrote: > > Just a quick note for the archives. If you have problems > installing 4.x from a bootable CD on a SCSI CDROM, make sure > you have the latest Asus BIOS. I didn't, and it locked the > machine up hard (no Ctrl-Alt-Del). This is with a Toshiba > CDROM and Mylex/Buslogic BT-948. I also flashed that to the > latest rev for the fun of it. I don't have the exact same hardware nor do I even have something similar. The machine looks something like this (sorry, don't have it at hand here, but could collect more concret data on request): - Athlon/700 (with 256MB of RAM) - MSI (MicroStar) board with IronGate (751/756) chipset - BIOS as of 2000/04/24 (latest available version) - ATAPI cdrom and IDE harddrives and it completely freezes booting the 4.0-RELEASE CD (the German user group's assembly as sold by JFLehmanns, www.lob.de). The "keyboard: yes" is seen, the rotating dash starts showing, but then the machine locks up hard and can only be power cycled or pushed via the reset button. This seems to be the stage where disks are scanned and enumerated for the loader. I won't be able to provide dmesg output (won't boot) nor did I have the time to investigate the problem any further -- I got the machine two days ago and installing FreeBSD on it was "just an option" after everything else was done. I could collect the data from eyeballing(sp? id?) the hardware and maybe booting Linux -- *if* this will do, neither did I try this up to now. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message