From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 18 7: 4:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lorne.arm.org (64-40-71-66.mebtel.net [64.40.71.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C3537B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:04:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dlt@localhost) by lorne.arm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0IF39A07685; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:03:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dlt@mebtel.net) X-Authentication-Warning: lorne.arm.org: dlt set sender to dlt@mebtel.net using -f To: Drew Sanford Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release References: <867l3wfiqr.fsf@lorne.arm.org> <3A63B70E.40306@planetwe.com> From: Derek Tattersall Date: 18 Jan 2001 10:03:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3A63B70E.40306@planetwe.com> Message-ID: <86wvbsrjgy.fsf@lorne.arm.org> Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Sanford writes: > I strongly suspect its an IRQ conflict. Every problem of this sort > that I've seen with the A7V has been an IRQ conflict, including the > problem I had with my own. Specificly I had to hard set the IRQ on my > NIC through the PCI management section of the bios. > > Derek Tattersall wrote: > > > I have a 1 GHz Thunderbird (Athlon) on an ASUS A7V Via KT133 chipset > > with an IBM ultra 100 30 Gig Hard drive. If I let the HDD be auto > > detected, 4.2 Release terminates at the point it is going to > > partition the drive. If I set the HDD for LBA with all the options > > disabled, > > it reboots in the middle of the boot sequence, after the "press enter > > to boot now prompt". > > Has anybody got configuration suggestions for this combination that > > could get FreeBSD installed? > > Thanks in advance... > > > -- > Drew Sanford > Systems Administrator > drew@planetwe.com > It certainly is an IRQ conflict between the 3C905B NIC and the promise controller. I could install and reboot just fine with the NIC removed. I tried setting different IRQs for the NIC (in slot 3) but the BIOS always put the promise controller on the same IRQ. More research is required. I think I'll see if I can borrow a NIC from work, a totally different brand and see what happens. -- Derek Tattersall dlt@mebtel.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message