Installation error Intel mobile ICH6M SATA controller.

[Eric Anderson]

It had the ICH6M, but the 915GM is graphics I believe (so shouldn't 
matter).  Here's a somewhat recent dmesg output:

http://googlebit.com/freebsd/dmesg.txt.200508062026

I'd guess either it's a BIOS config problem, or something that was 
selected on installed.   We have several D610's, and all the times I've 
tried installing FreeBSD on them, I've had no issues.

I don't believe we ever saw the output of bsdlabel and fdisk on ad0 - 
can you send that please?

Eric


Dean Patterson wrote:
> Do you have the Intel 915GM chipset and the ICH6M SATA
> controller?  
> 
> --- Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dean Patterson wrote:
>>
>>>Well I checked it using the shell and it was
>>
>>marked as
>>
>>>active.  But the problem is that the ATA driver
>>
>>only
>>
>>>supports up to ICH5, per the man pages.  So how is
>>>that situation handled?  I assume that I am NEVER
>>>going to run FBSD on this laptop?
>>
>>For what it's worth, I ran 5.4, 6.0, and 7.0 on a
>>D610 with no problems.
>>
>>Eric
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>--- Darren Pilgrim <dmp at bitfreak.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Dean Patterson [mailto:psamuel01 at yahoo.com] 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I am sorry I should have mentioned that I also
>>>>
>>>>tried
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>explicitly setting the slice active.  I will try
>>>>
>>>>again
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>and check it using the shell;  however, when I
>>>>
>>>>tried
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>using the holographic shell nothing worked.  I
>>>>
>>>>tried
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>using fdisk, bsdlabel, and ls and I always get
>>
>>the
>>
>>>>>message "command not found."
>>>>
>>>>The holographic shell is not the same as the
>>
>>fix-it
>>
>>>>shell.  The
>>>>holographic shell lacks, among other things proper
>>>>paths, which makes it
>>>>impossible to run many programs.  The "Fix-It"
>>
>>shell
>>
>>>>is a menu option in
>>>>sysinstall and starts a fully-functional shell.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Centaur Technology
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