Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:18:07 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Owe_J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no> To: "Tim Howe" <tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2) Message-ID: <opsxlqwhbiob2es4@m240g.studby.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> References: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net>
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I'm no expert on this, but I'd let that machine have it's own build environment instead of NFS importing it from a server. It _does_ require more disk space, but in the long run, it might be for the better. If you _must_ export from server, then export only /usr/src and not /usr/obj Owe Jørgensen On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:52:09 -0400, Tim Howe <tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com> wrote: > I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 on. It's > identical (except for the hard drive) to another machine that I ran the > 4.x series on for some time with no issues. > > I've got several other Pentium 3-based machines running 5.4-RELEASE-p3 > with a GENERIC kernel, and I have a 5.3 installer disk, so my strategy > was to do a minimal install of 5.3, then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj > from my organizational build server and upgrade to 5.4 from there. > > The 5.3 install went smoothly, make installkernel went smoothly, but > when I tried to reboot I got an error saying that it couldn't find the > root filesystem. Further investigation found that it wasn't able to > find the ATA HDD (master on ata0) at all, but could find the ATAPI CDROM > drive (master on ata0). > > I verified that the drive had not gone bad by again booting off the 5.3 > installer disk, which found ad0 with no difficulty. I then downloaded > the 5.4 mini-CD, which was unable to find ad0. Finally, I swapped in > another hard drive with identical results. > > Neither booting with ACPI disabled (didn't bother to check whether this > machine even has it) nor booting in safe mode helped at all. > > I did happen to notice that when the 5.3 CD boots, there is a delay of > several seconds when probing ata0. Could this be a timing issue with > regard to the controller? > > The machine is a Gateway ATXSTF FED Pro M1000 with a 1GHz Pentium III > and 256MB of RAM. It has an onboard Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller. The > first HDD I tried was a Western Digital Caviar 32500 2559.8MB drive, and > the second was a Caviar 24300 4311.9MB drive. > > If necessary, I'm willing to build custom kernels for testing purposes > or to add debugging statements etc, if anyone can give me pointers in > the right direction. > > Thanks in advance. > -- mvh, Owe André Jørgensen
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