From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 1 9:17:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from viking.fortresstech.com (unknown [207.87.233.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E8037B4C5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by VIKING with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:17:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB745643803D311A840006097A10D0F2E758E@VIKING> From: Bob Foxworth To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: Bob Foxworth Subject: cdrom won't boot in DFI/AMD-K6 intel system Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:17:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello friends, I have a problem getting CDROM to boot properly. I own/purchased both the Walnut-Creek provided 3.2-release and the 4.0-release versions as distributed by them. I have installed each of them twice (home + work) in previous hdwe setups, without difficulty. The last time here on a Asus TX97LE with an Intel Pentium-233. I am now trying to upgrade my system to a DFI K6BV3 board with a K6-2/500 AMD chip. I moved the existing hard disk to the new system and it would not recognize it properly (thought it was LRG mode) and wouldn't boot it. I ran QuickTech-Pro under DOS6.22 and it reported a bad IDE controller. I had the vendor replace the system board with a new one. I have swapped the drive cables with known good ones. I am getting the same boot error. The CDROM is an ATAPI 45x, a Windows-98 startup disk talks to it properly when booting with one. The BIOS (Award 1998) sees the CDROM as UDMA, 33. CDROM was mfgd in 1999 and I have used it before in this system. I set the BIOS to boot CDROM before all else. It is configured as secondary, slave, on IDE1 and the hard disk is primary on IDE0 with its own cable. (I've tried a couple of hard disks). At boot I get the following: -------begin screen info--------------------- verifying DMI pool data.... Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: < i hit enter > 1. FD 2.88 MB System Type -(00) /boot.config: -P Keyboard: no >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader boot: < i hit enter again > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 --------------------------end of screen info------------ Notes: 1. System is hung after BTX line and needs a hard power reset 2. My floppy is a 1.44 MB and works properly and is set properly in BIOS. Not a 2.88. 3. Keyboard is present 4. I get the same information with a 3.2-Release CD and with a 4.0-Release CD This sure looks like an issue with the system board. But 2 new ones in a row?? And I've had good luck with DFI's before, have several of them. I'd sure like to get a handle on what to do. Thanks for any leads, Bob Foxworth < bfoxworth@fortresstech.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Foxworth Network / Hardware Engineer Fortress Technologies, Inc. 4025 Tampa Road STE 1111 Oldsmar, FL 34677 voice 813-288-7388 fax 813-288-7389 bfoxworth@fortresstech.com "Securing A Networked World" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message