Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

Sun Mar 12 11:16:20 UTC 2006

> I believe you are saying that 5.2 is currently installed on
> the hard drive and you want to do a fresh install from scratch of
> 6.0.
>
> You have to change the pc bios setup to boot from the cd drive
> instead of from the hard drive.
> The pc will then boot from the 6.0 cd and install 6.0 destroying the
> 5.2 system on the hard drive along with any user data you had. After
> 6.0 is installed you have to change the bios back to booting from
> the hard drive.
>
> Be sure you have a backup of any user data on the 5.2 system you
> want saved.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> ehrhard.herbst at sz-online.de
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 5:44 PM
> To: questions at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help
>
>
> Hello,
>
> may I ask you for help with the following Problem:
> When I try to install FreeBsd6.0, there is the following error
> during the
> boot process (because the system is not able to boot from CD, I have
> to boot
> from floppy) occurs:
> ahc0: probe1:ahc0:0:1:0: SCB 6: immediate reset Flags 0x620
> ahc0: probe1:ahc0:0:1:0: No longer in timeout, status=25b
> ahc0: Issued channel A bus reset, SCBs 6 aborted.
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> There are variants of the messages with different SCB, flags and
> status.
>
> As a result, the install program does not find any disk.
> FreeBSD5.2 is running and dmesg produces the following output:
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
> 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights
> reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
>     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0a35000.
> Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0a351f4.
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (797.97-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x686  Stepping = 6
>
> Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M
> CA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> real memory  = 268369920 (255 MB)
> avail memory = 251047936 (239 MB)
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> npx0: [FAST]
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> acpi0: <GBT    AWRDACPI> on motherboard
> pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
> Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fdee0
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on
> acpi0
> acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port
> 0x5000-0x500f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x4000-0x407f,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> pcib0: slot 9 INTA is routed to irq 10
> pcib0: slot 10 INTA is routed to irq 12
> pcib0: slot 11 INTA is routed to irq 5
> agp0: <VIA 82C691 (Apollo Pro) host to PCI bridge> mem
> 0xd8000000-0xdbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> pcib0: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 11
> pcib1: slot 0 INTA is routed to irq 11
> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at
> device 7.1
> on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata0: [MPSAFE]
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> ata1: [MPSAFE]
> pci0: <bridge, HOST-PCI> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
> 0xe3001000-0xe30010ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:33:ab:df:66
> miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
> rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
> ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
> 0xe3000000-0xe3000fff irq 5 at device 11.0 on pci0
> aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port
> 0x3f7,0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
> sio1: type 16550A
> ppc0 port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc8000-0xca7ff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
> isa0
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 797967629 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 2 steps (100% to 50.0%), currently
> 100.0%
> GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc2d77600
> GEOM: create disk cd1 dp=0xc2d77e00
> GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc2e24050
> GEOM: create disk da1 dp=0xc2e26850
> GEOM: create disk da2 dp=0xc2e26450
> cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-32TS 1.02> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
> cd0: cd present [329666 x 2048 byte records]
> cd1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> cd1: <YAMAHA CRW4416S 1.0f> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd1: 8.333MB/s transfers (8.333MHz, offset 15)
> cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not
> present -
> tray closed
> da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <IBM DCAS-34330 S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da2: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
> da2: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM DCAS-34330 S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
> da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)
> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <IBM DDRS-34560 S92A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da1: 4357MB (8925000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 555C)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>
> Best regards
> E. Herbst.
>
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Sorry, but the Problem is, that FreeBSD6.0 does not recognize any of the
scsi disks, while FreeBSD5.2 does. BTW on that machine it is not possible
(for me) to change the bios in such a way, that the pc is booting from one
of the scsi cd and I think, the boot sequence does not matter in this
problem.