Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:52:00 -0700 From: Shannon -jj Behrens <jj@nttmcl.com> To: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel panic connected to IDE and 4.6 Message-ID: <20020705135200.A28000@alicia.nttmcl.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0207041759390.21590-100000@spider.nic-se.se>; from dufberg@nic-se.se on Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:54:32PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0207041759390.21590-100000@spider.nic-se.se>
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I have a similar problem on my old laptop. I fixed it by 1) Using a snapshot of STABLE. 2) Checking for IRQ conflicts and turning things off in BIOS. Best Regards, -jj > FreeBSD 4.6 crashes with kernel panic as soon as sysinstall tries to probe > the hardware during installation. > > Or if 4.6 is installed by some work-around, it crashes with kernel panic > if sysinstall is run and there is more than one IDE unit attached. Or it > crashes directly at boot-up when the system tries to mount disk if more > than one IDE unit is installed on the primary channel. > > Motherboard: ASUS P55T2P4D with dual-pentium 150MHz. > > IDE-chip: CMD 646 > > There has been no problems with FreeBSD 4.5. > > If sysinstall from 4.5 is used for 4.6, FreeBSD seems to be installed > correctly. > > Yes, the floppies and the installation CD with 4.6 has been successfully > used for installation on another computer (in that case with one harddisk > on primary IDE channel and on CD player on the secondary IDE channel). > > Yes, I do have another problem. Even though both the disk and the IDE chip > support DMA, the disk is mounted in PIO mode. The system tries DMA mode, > but falls back to PIO mode after serveral trials. -- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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