From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 7:40:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from limit.org (limit.org [216.102.231.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8D937B423 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from michael@localhost) by limit.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7SEdqt40304 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:39:51 -0700 From: Michael Matsumura To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller Card Message-ID: <20000828073951.A40280@jupiter.limit.org> References: <20000825230509.A580@jupiter.limit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:38:02AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:38:02AM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Michael Matsumura wrote: > > > I just installed a Promise Ultra66 controller card, and...its not > > working... the card's BIOS booted up and detected my two hard drives...but > > the boot loader spit out the following: > > > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > > unable to load kernel: > > Aborted > > > > [root:~]# uname -a > > FreeBSD jupiter.limit.org 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 25 > > 21:35:53 PDT 2000 root@jupiter.limit.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/JUPITER > > i386 > > > > > > I've tried disabling the on-board IDE controller, but to no avail... :\ > > Yes, I'm using an 80-wire IDE cable and it boots up fine without the > > Promise controller... > > > > Suggestions are more than welcome, thanks :) > > Have you d/l'd the latest Promise card firmware? I did that under > Win2K before booting the system under FreeBSD, and it now works fine. > > My -STABLE system was last built about three days before yours, FYI. > Yep...2.0 build 18, I think... Well, actually, I got it to boot on another hard drive after I formatted it, but now I get read timeouts that occur after a short, random time that cause my system to lock up...doh. -- Michael Matsumura michael@limit.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message