Date: 18 Jan 2001 10:03:09 -0500 From: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Message-ID: <86wvbsrjgy.fsf@lorne.arm.org> In-Reply-To: <3A63B70E.40306@planetwe.com> References: <867l3wfiqr.fsf@lorne.arm.org> <3A63B70E.40306@planetwe.com>
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Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> 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
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