Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:35:08 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sis735 & 4.4 (was New cdboot ISO available) Message-ID: <3C435D1C.2050504@owt.com> References: <Pine.OS2.4.32.0201142211080.52-100000@tenring.andymac.org>
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Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > > >>>>I have a ECS K7S5A that booted but sysinstall was completely hung. I >>>>had to hit the reset button to reboot. >>>> >>>> >>>Hmmm, that is weird. I assume it doesn't hang with the normal ISO image? >>> >>It boots the 4.4-release that was part of the 4-cd set just fine. This >>K7S5a has a DVD player on it for the CDROM. I tried the 4.5-iso on one >>of my other computers and it ran just fine. I have to go out but when >>I get back I have two other SiS-735 based computers that are being >>upgraded so they have W Paul's SiS-900 network update added. They all >>have CDROM players on them. I will try them when I reboot after >>installing the results of my latest cvsup. >> > > Hmmm, my K7S5A doesn't like 4.4 - it boots the install CD and installs, > but then won't boot off the HD (IDE). 4.2 installed and boots off the HD > just fine :-|. I don't have a copy of the failure report, but from memory > it died just after starting the daemons, and reported a signal 12. > > I had trouble with the 4.5RC1 miniboot cd on the K7S5A too, but I think I > got a bad download as I couldn't boot it on my Abit BP6 box (which someone > else reported as working), or mount the ISO image via vn on it (the BP6, > which is currently running 4.2R) - "cd9660: illegal argument" or some > such. > > Apologies for the lack of real information in this followup - I hadn't > followed through on this earlier because the K7S5A box normally runs OS/2 > so getting 4.4 installed on it wasn't high priority. I cvsup upgraded to 4.4 and didn´t have a problem getting it to boot. I have 3 systems based on the SiS-735 chipset that have been running 4-stable. You don't have anything faster that ata-33 without recent changes by Sören. I have two systems with CDs on them and I could boot the 4.5rc1.iso and sysinstall appeared to work. It was only on the 3rd system with the dvd device that I had problems. It would boot but sysinstall was hung from startup. FWIW, I also have a fully functional sis0 NIC (on all 3 systems, 2-'ECS'K7S5As and an Amptron 830LM) with an additional change that will be made soon (hopefully!!) to if_sis.c Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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