Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:38:57 +0000 From: Hacene <hacene@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hacene@gmx.net Subject: Can't install FBSD (2.2.7-3.0) Adaptec 2940 seems problem Message-ID: <19981120213857.A15283@ee.ic.ac.uk>
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Hi, I have a serious problem trying to install FreeBSD on my PC. It's a PentiumII with a IDE disk (IBM) and a scsi card from Adaptec (2940 bought in early 1996 with bios 1.21) connecting an MO drive as well as a scsi CDROM. I have tried to install FBSD from a local public NFS server using the boot disk from 2.2.7 release, 3.0 release, latest 2.2.7 SNAP and 3.0 SNAP with no success. The bootdisks works perfectly on another PC without the 2940 scsi card, but not on mine :( I can go through the visual selection of devices and turnoff almost everything but when it goes into the "blue" screen where it probes the hardware, It crashes with a message about not being able to load init and that it's rebooting in 15 seconds. I manage to switch to the second virtual terminal just in time to see a message scrolling very fast mentioning ahc0(0,0....) and somthing about "ILLEGAL REQUEST CMD: asc:21,0". then it crashes and returns me to the blue probing devices screen with a message overwritting the blue screen "panic: Going nowhere without my init". First is there a way for me to get more meaningful debugging info to you (and how? ;). is there a boot incantation that whould output more useful info (I tried ALT-F2 and got a very fast scrolling message described above about ahc0, but too fast to record or examine the earlier messages), and disable that blue probing message screen of the install disk? Secondly the system works quite well under both WinXX and Linux. Thirdly I had tried previously (3 months ago to install 2.2.7 on the same PC but with a different motherboard (a TX based QDI board) and an AMD K6-233, with excatly the same results :( (can't get passed the blue probing window of the boot floppy) And finally I have managed to boot the PicoBSD boot floppy which seems to have been compiled without any support for the Adaptec 2940 with no problem, part from that it's isn't very useful in installing FreeBSD from scratch (I think ?). A summary of my system: Processor: PentiumII (Celeron 300A) Memory: 64MB SDRAM Motherboard: Abit BH6 Harddisk: IBM 4.3 G UDMA on the ISA Bus: Ensoniq SoundScape Soundcard (IRQ9, IRQ5, DMA1, DMA3) 3COM 3c509B (IRQ7) on the PCI Bus: ATI Mach64 2MB Video card Pure3D Voodoo1 6MB Video card Adaptec 2940 (Bios 1.21) (connected to an internal Philips CD-R 2600 and an external IBM 5.25" MO drive) Anyway I hope someone has seen something similar or that there is some "boot.flp" install disk without Adaptec Support (though I wonder whether I can recompile the system and have use of my SCSI cdrom, and MO drive later, or will I have the same problem?) I would apreciate any help you could give, and I am ready to try any experiment to sort out this problem (doesn't look very good when Linux can boot and install and FBSD seems to have problems :( I sincerely hope it's my fault seeing as not many reported this kind of problem) By the way, while I am here, thanks to all you contributor of FBSD for a fine integrated system. Hacene. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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