Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:08:53 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson <partek@indecent.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950830140317.5069A-100000@system1.indecent.com>
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(Please send replies to partek@iquest.net) After using Linux for 4 months, and learning more about FreeBSD, I decided to give it a try. (The main thing that convinced me was the kernel configure that's almost identical to SunOS 4.1.3) I tried 5 times yesterday to install FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP. Each time the install over FTP went fine,(even though it took forever over my 28.8k modem) but when it came to booting the system from the HD, it would lock up looking something like this: ------------- >> FreeBSD [Stuff I don't remember deleted] Boot: | -------------- Then the computer was completely frozen. I was told on #FreeBSD that the problem sounded like it originated with my hard drive controller. I've tried every setting, and every configuration on the controller and it still did the same exact thing when trying to boot from the HD.. Is this controller just incompatable with FreeBSD, or am I doing something horribly wrong? I tried setting it up with the boot manager AND the standard MBR also.. Also, when installing I ran into another problem. When sysinstall went to write the fdisk info to wd0, it would crash saying something like this: ------ sysinstall: read input/output error panic: running away without my init! ------ It then would force a reboot. I don't know what caused it, but if I erased the partition table and started over, it seemed to work. Could this be related to the HDC too? I refuse to go out and spend $80+ on a new EIDE controller, so I'm willing to help out in any way I can on getting this to work. (Please send any replies to partek@iquest.net)
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