Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:18:46 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies Message-ID: <200611141418.kAEEIkTl021578@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: <20061114105224.GA86908@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <20061114082622.GA79591@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20061114084341.GA80973@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20061114105224.GA86908@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:43:41PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > > I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. > > > It successfully loads kernel and acpi.ko and shows menu > > > formerly known as 'Beastie' (now draws 'FreeBSD' instead of Chuck). > > > The menu shows that FreeBSD detects that this system does not > > > have ACPI and will boot without ACPI support enabled. > > > > > > However, timer does not 'tick' and there is always 10 seconds left. > > > I choose verbose mode, it starts to show its diagnostic output > > > but last line it shows is 'Calibrating clocks...' then it halts: > > > keyboard leds do not switch, there is no reaction on 'Ctrl-Alt-ESC'. > > > > Hmm, I was too quick... The kernel has spent lots of minutes > > 'sitting in this pose' but suddenly said that clock calibration > > has failed and it will use default frequency. Then it booted Ok > > and I've installed the system to HDD using 6.1-RELEASE (I do not > > have complete 6.2-BETA3 CD here but plan to do binary upgrade > > over FTP). > > > > When installation process was finished, it rebooted from HDD > > but it now it sits again at the same stage trying to calibrate clock, > > 5 minutes are gone already. So the question is what should I do > > to skip this stage and have accurate timers still. > > I've rebuild kernel without any CALIBRATE_XXX options > but it still tries to calibrate clock and hangs for 15 minutes exactly > then proceedes to probe devices and boots Ok. > > When I first booted this old machine its BIOS said that Date/Time in CMOS > are corrupted and asked to press F1 to enter SETUP to fix this > or press ESC to continue booting. Enterins SETUP and correcting > settings does not help and BIOS complains again that Date/Time are wrong > and does not proceed without a key is pressed on keyboard. > That's not suitable for small standalone router so I went to the store, > bought Duracell DL2032 3V battary and replaced old > Panasonic CD2032 3V battary. That satisfied BIOS POST and it no more > complains about Date/Time. But FreeBSD spends 15 minutes to calibrate clock. > > Now I've put back old Panasonic CD2032 3V and hey, BIOS complains again > but FreeBSD boots normally and completes clock calibration very quickly. > > I wonder, how new battery may affect clock calibration routines > and why old bad battery does not affect it that way? > > Eugene Grosbein After changing battery I'd assume every piece of your CMOS BIOS is potentialy wrong. I'd do a factory reset of BIOS (not just checking things (*)) & then set what I wanted in every position going through BIOS before wondering what the interaction with any OS was. (*) I've known a BIOS (Gigabyte 486-33 AMD I think, but principle applies to others), where I reset every CMOS field exactly how it should be, yet board didnt work right, then I did a factory reset, & set personal prefs again & then it did work. Lesson was that BIOS manuf. was resetting more than it displayed (& something must have got scrambled but not displayed) -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software
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