Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: jlm <jlm@caamora.caamora.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to problem .. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960908202758.224M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <efd_9609082211@caamora.caamora.com.au>
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On 8 Sep 1996, jlm wrote: > please forgive the lowercase, i suffer from arthritis and these days type > singularly in lowercase for my emails. That's OK. Please do not send FreeBSD questions to me directly -- I don't have all the answers. :-) Use <questions@freebsd.org> instead. > anyway, i ws hoping you could help me with a problem, i have subscribed to > several freebsd mailing lists (install, questions and a couple more like that). > my problem is that ive forgotten how to post an article to the mailing list .. > if you wouldn't mind, please. Just send the mail to the list address, ie to send to questions write To: questions@freebsd.org. > i've mannaged to get myself twisted out of shape over the new freebsd release > 2.1.5 .. the cd arived here the other day and i popped it into the caddy and > typed install from the root directory on the cd and after the probe ... the > probe, all it did was sit thier with a white block cursor in the lower lefthand > corner. then i made the boot diskette and tried again, turning off the machine > to give it time to settle .. the same happened again. Try booting with the -c option and remove all the devices that are not installed in your system. I'm including the information below and forwarding to questions in case someone has a clue as to your problem. I'd usually say 'sio conflict' but they don't exist in the 2.1.5-RELEASE boot floppy because we removed the conflict. > then i got out my previous rev's of freebsd (2.1.0 & 2.0.5), they all booted > into the installation menu without any problems. then i did the basic sandshoe > shuffle around the other 3 machine in my small network and rev 2.1.5 fired up > on all three. these machines are all old technology i486dx33 and i386sx20's > with adaptec 1542b scsi and tween 8 and 16 meg of dram. > > so whats different with the one that won't present the installation menu, it is > an intel pentium 133 mhz triton v2.0 with 256k of pipeline burst cache and 32 > meg of dram. peripherals include, buslogic bt958 ultra wide scsi host, stb > powergraph 64 with 2 meg (s3 trio64v+ chipset), nec 4d, a pair of fujitsu > 1049kb scsi2 harddisks, a tandberg tdc 3820 qic-525 streamer, smc pci 10 mb/s > etherpower (digital dc21041 ethernet), sony 4x scsi cdrom (cdu76s), and a pair > of sony 1.44 mb 3 1/2 inch floppy drives. > > one thing that i did notice out of the ordinary as it did the probe were these > two lines very close to the end, after it has started the isa bus probe, > > bt: unit number (1) too high > bt1 not found at 0x330 > > and if it helps this is the what it says earlier on in the piece, when it is > probing the pci bus, > > bt0 <Buslogic 946 SCSI host adapter> rev 8 int a irq 10 on pci0:17 > bt0: Bt 958 / 0-(32bit) bus > bt0: reading board settings, busmastering, int=10 > bt0: ver 5.05R, faast sync, parity, 32 mbxs, 32 ccbs > bt0: targ 0 sync rate=10.00MB/s(100ns), offset=15 > bt0: targ 1 sync rate=10.00MB/s(100ns), offset=15 > bt0: targ 3 sync rate= 5.00MB/s(200ns), offset=15 > bt0: Using Strict Round robin scheme > bt0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (bt0:0:0): "FUJITSU M1606S-512 6236" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(bt0:0:0):Direct-Access 1041 MB (2131992 512 byte sectors) > (bt0:1:0): "FUJITSU M1606S-512 6236" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd1(bt0:1:0):Direct-Access 1041 MB (2131992 512 byte sectors) > (bt0:3:0): "SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S 1.1c" type 5 removable SCSI 2 > cd0(bt0:3:0): CD-ROM present.[320495 x 2048 byte records] > > yes, i'm about as confused as my pentium appears to be > > sigh, its been a long long night and i'd better put it all away before i start > seeing things. > > any assistance would be most appreciated, even if its information about bt958 > support at some point in the future .. i'm still glad i didn't get the aha2940 > host adapter, er at least i think i'm glad .. grin > > sorry for this two parter, but i let my mouth write a cheque that my body is > now having trouble honouring. > > regards ... jonathan > > EMail: jlm@caamora.com.au > > --- > -- > Caamora (InterNet Services) __________________________________________ > PO Box 2036 > Clovelly West NSW 2031 Australia data +61 2 96659249 > ------------------------------------------------- <jlm@caamora.com.au> > Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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