From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 15:33:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0ED16A421 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:33:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9864213C4CB for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:33:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6AFQTDI033849; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070710102335.024f9418@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:26:21 -0500 To: "Kurt Buff" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070709180328.023f5c58@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:33:21 -0000 At 07:47 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: >On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona wrote: >> >> At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona wrote: >> >> >> At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows >> XP with no issues. >> >> However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any >> of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing >> >> The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of >> different disk arrangements, with no success. >> >> I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS >> detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it >> detects no hard drive. >> >> I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL >> 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB >> Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files >> to disk. >> >> Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my >> friend on this one. >> >> I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular >> luck, but I could be missing something. >> Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the >> Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these >> chips and FreeBSD! >> >> Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? >> >> -Derek >> Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did - >> that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the >> one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects >> it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine. >> Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive? >> >> On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the >>hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order. I >>know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities. >>I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation. After you >>had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out? >> >> -Derek > >I think I'll go beat my lackey again. > >He was supposed to remove the jumper, and didn't do it. > >I took it off, and it's installing happily to the IDE drive. > >I'm gonna bag the SATA for now. > >Thanks for your help, > >Kurt I'm glad I could help. As an FYI windows ignores a lot of hardware issues until it simply can't run anymore, where FreeBSD is much better at error checking. Of course sometimes that can make it frustrating. If you can get a decent SATA controller you might try adding or switching to SATA in the future, but avoid the Sil ones. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.