Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "David J. MacKenzie" <djm@web.us.uu.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/16474: SCSI (AHA-2940UW) CDROM install freezes Message-ID: <200004121700.KAA56718@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/16474; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "David J. MacKenzie" <djm@web.us.uu.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, stevel@communicom.net, djm@web.us.uu.net Cc: Subject: Re: i386/16474: SCSI (AHA-2940UW) CDROM install freezes Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:56:46 -0400 I just installed 4.0 on a system with an Adaptec 2940U with BIOS v1.23. It booted from CD, but BSD's probe didn't detect the CD-ROM drive (cd0), even though it found the two SCSI disks on the same controller (da0 and da1). Booting from floppy didn't help. My workaround was to put the CD in another computer (running Linux) and export it via NFS, and install over NFS. I'm using an Epox Athlon motherboard. Once BSD was installed, it found the CD-ROM drive (a Yamaha CRW4416S CD-RW) and I can use it without problems (I'm using the generic kernel). So, maybe this is a little progress, or maybe my motherboard or Adaptec BIOS version just let it get a little farther. What happens if you mount the CD under another OS and make floppies from floppies/kern.flp and floppies/mfsroot.flp, and boot from them--does it still freeze? Can you remove the SCSI controller and try it, or is it integrated into the motherboard? (You might not have any hard disks at that point, but it would show whether the SCSI controller was the reason for it freezing up.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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