Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:15:49 +0100 From: Robert Suetterlin <robert@mpe.mpg.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CPQ ML350. Boot Hangs during Installation. Updated Problem Report. Message-ID: <20020115141549.GA3257@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de> In-Reply-To: <20020111150745.GE159@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de> References: <20020111150745.GE159@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
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Hello Again! Found some time to do more testing... So. I have the Promise Ultra100 TX2 (bios 2.12) connected to a PCI Slot which allows it to work at least under some conditions. Connected to Promise Controller are four IBM ATA 100 harddisks. The System it is plugged in is a COMPAQ Proliant ML350. The Bios of the Server states no IRQ conficts. I start the inital boot of the FreeBSD installation (FBSD4.4REL) with no special parameters, during visual configuration of the kernel I remove everything from Network, everything but fdc from Storage and PC-Card from Misc. The boot process ends with 'plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0' while still in bright text mode. Then the machine hangs. I can boot ok if I remove either the drives connected to ata-interface 1 or 2 of the promise controller (these are ata-2 and ata-3 for my freebsd kernel). If I have anything connected to both ata-interfaces of the controller the boot hangs. If I have only stuff on one interface (no matter which of the two, but only one) the the system boots ok. BTW the harddrives I use are IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 (40Gig). The Chipset of the COMPAQ is a ServerWorks (don't know more specific). When the system boots ok (using only one channel of the promise controller) the next message in dmesg after plip0: is 'ad4 39266MB ... at ata2-master UDMA100'. Then there is one more for the second harddrive, then acd0 at ata0-slave, and finally 'Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c'. If anyone knows how I can get my second ata-channel working _please_ tell me. Or if there is any additional diagnostic I can apply. Regards, Robert S. -- Robert Suetterlin (robert@mpe.mpg.de) phone: (+49)89 / 30000-3546 fax: (+49)89 / 30000-3950 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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