Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:24:19 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BCF976.4060902@paradise.net.nz> <200506251733.24574.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hmm strange.. > I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few times > on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has > never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) > > I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there is > more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). > Sounds like a promising possibility (good pun too) - as removing the RAID card (in my case a Promise TX2000) certainly makes it go away. Some other observations: 5.0 and 5.1 install CDs boot fine for me (have not tried 5.2), it is only 5.3 and 5.4 (also today 6.0 CURRENT) that crash (reg dump ) or reboot immediately. That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). Cheers Mark
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