Installation error Intel mobile ICH6M SATA controller.
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Sun Sep 4 18:58:32 PDT 2005
Dean Patterson wrote:
> 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.
Hmm.. Well, the ones I've seen seem to match the same specs, and while I
have seen linux (Fedora Core 2) stumble on it, FreeBSD has always worked
fine for me on D610's (and 600's).
Can you do a full install? Also, I didn't see the fdisk or bsdlabel
info - can you post that somewhere? You might be able to boot a
FreeSBIE disk or even one of the recently posted (on -advocacy I think)
BSD CD boot disks, and then send the dmesg that way.
So - if I understand correctly, it just never mounts the root
filesystem? We really need to see the last chunk of a verbose boot I
think plus the fdisk/bsdlabel info to get any further.
Are you in Houston?
Eric
> --- 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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