Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:51:05 -0700 From: "Seth Hieronymus" <shieronymus@gmail.com> To: "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, delphij@delphij.net Subject: Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk Message-ID: <70d306230712272051q5aa9f0b2xf9e61150d2da307d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071228002922.GA75879@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <70d306230712240855j3ecd0000w7a7f87cadc15652a@mail.gmail.com> <47743135.50103@delphij.net> <70d306230712271549j1fc5c31dm3a8d5acc04871c9e@mail.gmail.com> <20071228002922.GA75879@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Dec 27, 2007 5:29 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk? This > will > > > be helpful to narrow down the issue... > > > Thanks for the response! What you suggested worked -- I removed the > SATA > > cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0BETA4 > > AMD64 LiveFS cd. > > > Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard > also > > has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is: > > atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> > > I've got two disks attached in RAID1 to the VIA 6420 controller. Works > fine here (7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD amd64). Try connecting your disks to the > via controller. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/<http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ersmith/>; > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) > Thanks for the reply. That's good to know about the VIA controller. I'm not quite ready to wipe my current disks yet, which I think I would have to do to switch RAID controllers, but may go that route in the future. I also confirmed I can install on a plain IDE harddrive, so may just do that for immediate testing. Thanks, Seth
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