Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:11:49 -0600 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk Message-ID: <47743135.50103@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <70d306230712240855j3ecd0000w7a7f87cadc15652a@mail.gmail.com> References: <70d306230712240855j3ecd0000w7a7f87cadc15652a@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Seth Hieronymus wrote: > In testing my Windows desktop with the 7.0 LiveFS disk ( > 7.0-BETA4-amd64-livefs.iso), I get an instant reboot when the CD is run. As > far as I can tell, no console messages are printed, so it seems the error > happens very early in the loading process. Other FreeBSD versions (6.2, > i386 7.0) also exhibit the same behavior. If left alone, the computer will > just continually reboot. > > The specs of the system are: > Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard > AMD Athlon64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz > Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579) > 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1 > Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card > > My guess is that the disk controller is not supported. Should this cause an > instant reboot with a live filesystem disk? Is there anyway to debug this > since no console messages are printed? One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk? This will be helpful to narrow down the issue... Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHdDE0hcUczkLqiksRAnqZAJ9d5DvreJwI/gciL+xtBcone7uhuACfbakl p/pv89ZWt25HGL9I/4a8avU= =RApP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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