Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:37:02 -0700 From: Ty Lammy <ty@lammy.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0 on Dell Poweredge 6100/200 wont install Message-ID: <38D1701F.A1CB5380@lammy.net>
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I'm trying to get 4.0 Release installed on a Dell Poweredge 6100/200. This box has 4 Ppro procs with 128mb RAM. It has dual onboard Adaptec 7880 SCSI controllers. I cannot get the install to boot past the 'Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle'. It boots without problem until it gets to this point then it freezes hard, I can't even cntrl-alt-del to reboot. I also tried 3.4 with the same nogo results. As far as troubleshooting i've removed any conflicts in the kernel, no help. Strange thing is the ahc driver didn't even show up in the kernel config as an active driver so I couldn't remove it from the kernel; it did show aha and aic though. I even disabled everything except the floppy and other essentials and that didn't help. Removed any SCSI devices that were connected, no help. There doesn't seem to be any way to disable the onboard SCSI in the bios so I can't remove it entirely. I did disable the adapter bios and that didn't help (I did get a message on boot saying 'Host Adapter BIOS disabled. Using default SCSI parameters). Here's a snippet of the bootup message regarding the onboard SCSI (with adapter BIOS on): ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 UltraSCSI Adapter> port 0xfc00-0xfcff irq9 at device 11.0 on PCI1 ahc0: Using leftover BIOS settings ach0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: <Adaptec aic7880 UltraSCSI Adapter> port 0xf800-0xf8ff irq5 at device 12.0 on PCI1 ahc1: Using leftover BIOS settings ach1: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs BTW, how would I capture or pause this startup text? Writing this down is a bitch ;-) And dmesg doesn't apply because the system doesn't even boot. Not sure what the 'using leftover bios settings' means. I was able to get Redhat 6.1 on it with no problems but I can't stand it so i'm hoping someone can deliver me from RH :-) Thanks all! -Ty p.s. Here is some rev info on the 6100/200: AMIBIOS 1.00.14CD0 BIOS Version A07 System backplane firmware revision 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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