From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 16:30:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F6216A475 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:30:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0FE13C4EA for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:30:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A71AB.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.113.171]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lB4GEQ8x019268 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:14:27 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB4GEii0029771 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:14:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost.js.berklix.net [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB4GEiOw073415 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:14:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200712041614.lB4GEiOw073415@fire.js.berklix.net> To: mobile@freebsd.org From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen. User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:14:44 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.org Cc: Subject: 7.0BETA3 + Dell Latitude XPi : Disk problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:30:50 -0000 freebsd-mobile@, ( bcc'd re@freebsd.org for info ) Suggestions please to help escape nightmare (below) of 7.0BETA3 installer repeatedly failing on a Dell Latitude XPi, (which runs 4.11 no problem). It seems the 5,6,7 FreeBSD Installer wont work on this laptop. All I can think of now for this laptop is: Reinstall 4.11 Abandon FreeBSD installer for this laptop Hand allocate an Fdisk S2 Hand partition disklabel ad0s2 Hand install boot sectors Hand newfs ad0s2a & f (but UFS2 or 1 ?) Hand cross install a complete 7.0BETA3 operational tree Hand edit /boot/loader.conf Test. & tune boot & loader.conf till disk & pcmcia ep0 work. Report back to re@ more conservative values (by which time they may well have shipped release). Other ideas ? Note I have installed 7.0BETA3 on other hosts. Detail with 7.0BETA3 below (previous history with 6.2 here: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#dell ) =========================== After continuously failing to persuade 7 installer to do any of - install to hard disk OK, - recognise & use pcmcia ep0 OR - recognise & use pcmcia cdrom card & avoid deathly timeouts (& each failure each time needing 7 floppy changes. ) So I gave up on pcmcia ep0 & pcmcia cdrom to install from, and Deleted all fdsik partions Installed 4.11 fresh on first 1.5G partition, copied 4.11 CD to /usr/cd Booted 7 floppies (yet Again) set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 boot ( About 5 mins wait after it says toot@logan ... sys/GENERIC before "real memory" ) `A' utomatic disklabel fails, (thinks 2.5G insufficient for /usr), Manually 300G root leave 90M swap found from 4.11 Rest of space for /usr Mount old partions as /4 /4/var /4/tmp /4/usr Install from filesystem /4/usr/cd Finished with no errors. Reboot F2 refused, so push F1 to boot 4.11 to look: # disklabel ad0s2 # cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV ad0s2a fsck ad0s2a BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS ? [yn] y # fsck -b 32 /dev/ad0s2a Alternate super block location: 32 ** /dev/ad0s2a BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG # uname -a FreeBSD norb.js.berklix.net 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 21 17:21:22 GMT 2005 root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 21 17:21:22 GMT 2005 root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (133.64-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Features=0x1bf real memory = 58720256 (57344K bytes) config> di bt0 config> di aic0 config> di aha0 config> di adv0 config> q avail memory = 51699712 (50488K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc055c000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc055c09c. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 6.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: at 7.0 irq 15 atapci0: port 0xfe00-0xfe0f irq 14 at device 8.0 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 orm0: