Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk

[Seth Hieronymus]

On Dec 27, 2007 5:29 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote:
>
> > > > The specs of the system are:
> > > > Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard
> > > > AMD Athlon64 3800+  Newcastle 2.4GHz
> > > > Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579)
> > > > 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1
> > > > Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card
>
> > > One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk?  This
> will
> > > be helpful to narrow down the issue...
>
> > Thanks for the response!  What you suggested worked -- I removed the
> SATA
> > cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0BETA4
> > AMD64 LiveFS cd.
>
> > Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard
> also
> > has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is:
> > atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller>
>
> I've got two disks attached in RAID1 to the VIA 6420 controller. Works
> fine here (7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD amd64). Try connecting your disks to the
> via controller.
>
> Roland
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Thanks for the reply.  That's good to know about the VIA controller.  I'm
not quite ready to wipe my current disks yet, which I think I would have to
do to switch RAID controllers, but may go that route in the future.  I also
confirmed I can install on a plain IDE harddrive, so may just do that for
immediate testing.

Thanks,
Seth