FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

[Shaun Sabo]

re-flashed bios with latest version from dell's website. it was the same
version but i re-flashed anyways and im still seeing the same behavior where
i cant mount any disks to install or use the livefs.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Shaun Sabo <shaun.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> but then why does it not complain in freebsd 6.2, linux, or windows but it
> does in 7.0? and why i mean by the freebsd sysinstaller is the screen you
> get when you boot a freebsd disk or when you type sysinstall at a command
> line in a bsd system. i had the problem where it would only boot 2/3 of the
> way into the bios once before when i used debian, it was because debian was
> still on the 2.4 linux kernel and didnt support my mobo yet so it tried to
> detect it and you had to completely power off the system to get it to boot
> again, which seems like what is happening here. im going to try re-flashing
> the bios just to make sure that nothing is wrong with them. And also i tried
> both the 7.0-RELEASE and 7-STABLE livefs disks and both of them cannot mount
> the livefs image.
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:46:53PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote:
> > > i tried both the 7-stable and 7.0-RELEASE livefs disks and when i went
> > into
> > > fixit then to CD/DVD livefs it would ask me for the livefs cd (which i
> > had
> > > in the drive and which i booted from) it looks like i cant even mount
> > the
> > > image of the livefs disk from the cd-rom drive.
> >
> > I'd recommend you burn one of the snapshot livefs images to a CD and
> > boot it.  This is what I was implying the first time around.  It should
> > give you a live FreeBSD system with common utilities.
> >
> > > also iv noticed that when i
> > > reboot after booting into the sysinstaller the bios gets about 2/3 of
> > the
> > > way booted and stops and i have to hold the power and reboot to get
> > back
> > > into opensuse/vista.
> >
> > I don't understand what this means.  "When I reboot after booting into
> > the sysinstaller".  Are you talking about FreeBSD sysinstall?
> >
> > Otherwise, any situation where the BIOS does not boot your hard disks
> > sounds more like a BIOS or system problem and definitely has nothing to
> > do with FreeBSD.
> >
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> >
> >
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