Installation error Intel mobile ICH6M SATA controller.

[Dean Patterson]

Well like I say the 600's where PATA and my 610 is
SATA.  Some have Intel Video and some have ATI.  Some
have AGP while others have PCI-x so they come in
different configurations.  That is why I ask you for
your configuration.  Are you installing on a ICH5/6 or
an ICH6M?  SATA or PATA?  I could not get FreeSBIE to
work either.  I just did a minimal install and I
always get invalid partition/slice!  I also asked,
"How
> > can I get the dmesg info for you from
> sysinstall/vc4?"  I dont know a way to get output
from an install disk.

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

> 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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