Installation error Intel mobile ICH6M SATA controller.

[Dean Patterson]

Well not all D610's are created equally.  I work in
the Caterpillar IT dept. and even our orders from one
week to another differ.  The one I am using has a SATA
controller (ICH6M) with ATI pci-x video.  Is this what
you are using?  As far as the setup I am doing a
simple one slice system and setting is active.  And I
check it on vc4 and it shows active.  I am also just
doing a minimal install so I dont understand what
could be different than the many other installs.  I
had it on a Dell D600 with no problems, but it was
PATA.  Although I dont know why SATA would cause an
issue as I know FBSD to have great SATA support.  How
can I get the dmesg info for you from sysinstall/vc4? 
I really appreciate your assistance.

Thank you,
Dean.

--- Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:

> 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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