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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:12:12 -0600
From:      "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>
To:        "'Tim Strike'" <tstrike@targetnet.com>, scsi@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server
Message-ID:  <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB046443@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com>

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What kind of scsi subsystem do you have?  Can you post the
boot messages that occur up to the freeze?  You might also
stop the boot loader during the timeout and set the
boot_verbose flag to '1' before booting.

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Strike [mailto:tstrike@targetnet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: scsi@freebsd.org; stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: FreeBSD 4.6 Installation on SCSI-only server
> 
> 
> I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE on several i386 
> systems (clones) that have dual SCSI and no IDE disks.  These 
> systems are currently running an older version of FreeBSD 
> (3.3 through 3.5, I'm not sure how they were installed as 
> that pre-dates me tenure).
> 
> The installation of 4.6-RELEASE locks shortly after a message 
> regarding ppc0 (something to the effect of "ppc0: Parallel 
> port not found"), when I think it is looking for disk 
> controllers or disk drives.  For kicks, I tried 4.5-RELEASE 
> as well, and it failed in the same way.  When I get a chance, 
> I'll try 4.4, 4.3 and 4.2 as well since those were the last 
> installations that I completed myself (on similar but not 
> identical hardware).
> 
> I've tried booting from floppy (to use a network install), 
> and from both SCSI and IDE CD-ROM.  I've tried the ATA 
> workaround on the odd chance that was the problem, but still no luck.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before?  Any 
> ideas on how to either fix it or get more information on what 
> is going wrong (and what it's trying to do just before lockup)?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Regards, -ts.
> 
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