Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:00:25 +0100 (CET) From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: Adam Feigin <afeigin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 6.0 on Miata (PWS500au) Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0512280857320.29948@tea.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051224141123.85721.qmail@web32907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051224141123.85721.qmail@web32907.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Adam Feigin wrote: > Hello. I've been trying to install 6.0 from CD on my > Miata, without any luck. At first, I got reports that > the qlogic driver was a bit flakey, so I should > install on an IDE drive. Alas, recabling the machine > is not really what I had in mind. > > So, I figured that I'd swap the qlogic for a symbios > (875) card, and try that; if its the isp driver thats > flakey, then perhaps it would work. > > Well, the mighty casey has struck out. The booting > with the sym card gets to the same point (looks like > SCSI probe), and then halts. Here's the boot -v > output: Symbios cards work, my ds10 boots hapily from an 895. It might be a dead scsi disk or bad cables. Have you tried booting netbsd/openbsd to double check if the hardware is ok ? -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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