Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 10:09:00 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl-Petter_=C5kesson?= <kalle@sics.se> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems to initialize flashcard during boot under FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <3E15532C.4010605@sics.se>
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Hello all, I have tried to see if someone has stumbled into the same problem but have not been sucessful. Seen some similar ones though they didnt not help me. I recentley upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE from 4.4-RELEASE and after that I can not boot the machine any longer. THe machine is a laptop(Thinkpad 560) with a 20Gb HD but since the machine is old the BIOS does not support so large drives and it actually refuses to boot if the HD is set to master. To come aroundd this problem I have it boot from a PCMCIA flashcard instead. It has worked very well with FreeBSD-4.4. The following is the error message I get during the boot. Since I have not figured out how to get a dump of it I have written it off the screen. pccard: card inserted, slot 0 ad1: 19077Mb <TOSH... ad2: timeout waiting for interrupt ad2: enabling readahead cache failed ad2: timeout waiting for interrupt ad2: enabling write cache failed ... the screen scrolls so I cannot see if there is more printed out ... ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 ata1: resetting device ad2: removed from configuration done Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode ... ... My interpretation of this as not being a kernel guru is that while initilizing the flashcard(ad2) there is a timeout and thus the initialization of the device fails. This would be perfectley fine if it had not been the case that / is on that device and thus when the device is removed the kernel crashes since it cannot mount /. Anyone know how I could fix or get around this problem? I tried to insert the flashcard into my other machine which was successfullt upgraded to FreeBSD-4.7-RELEASE and I can mount the device and read files without a problem. /Kalle -- -- Karl-Petter Åkesson SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB http://www.sics.se/~kalle/contact.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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