Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:20:38 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, dave@syix.com Subject: Re: BSD 6 or 7 + Intel 3200 MCH chipset Message-ID: <200803252320.39255.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <007501c88edf$5f274740$26714dd1@syix.com> References: <007501c88edf$5f274740$26714dd1@syix.com>
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On Tuesday 25 March 2008 09:19:00 pm Dave Overton wrote: > Just put together a nice 1U box, Tyan Tank GT20, plugged in its 8gb ECC > RAM, its 4 shiney new HDs and fired it up. Bios looks normal, reset > the clock to something resembling today, and throw in the Fbsd7 disk! > > No joy. > > I get just a hint of a "booting" line, then an instant reboot, or with > a 6 disk, I get a scrolling mess that I have no idea what it says. Partly guessing, but this sounds like the real-mode BTX bootloader issue. It's become increasingly common on newer hardware, and it's not limited to USB devices like it used to be. Fortunately, there is a good chance that jhb's recent BTX overhaul will fix it. Unfortunately, it was only committed to -CURRENT two weeks ago and MFC'ed to RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 one week ago so I doubt there's a ready-to-use snapshot CD you can download that includes it. If it were me I'd create a bootable USB stick (on another machine) to verify that you can boot the server with the latest boot blocks, then use it to do a manual install (or at least bootstrap the process). But that's just me--I like that sort of thing. It's also possible to roll your own installation CD but I've never done.it. I do recall someone posting an link to an image to one of the mailing lists, but IIRC that was with a BTX patch older than the one that actually got committed. Probably someone else on this list has a better suggestion. JN > My question, has anyone got fbsd running on one of these chipsets? If > so, how did you do it? Tried 7 release in i386 and amd64 version, and > v6 i386. They all do the same thing. > > (it will run the misc test CDs I have here just fine, even let it do > most of a WinXP install with no issues, so I don't really believe it to > be a hardware issue) > > Tyan Tank GT20 model B5211 > Tyan Toledo i3200R m/b > Intel 3200 MCH chipset.
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