Installation woes with 6.2 release

[Derek Ragona]

At 07:47 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>>
>>  At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>>
>>On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>>
>>  I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows
>>   XP with no issues.
>>
>>   However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any
>>   of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing
>>
>>   The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of
>>   different disk arrangements, with no success.
>>
>>   I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS
>>   detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it
>>   detects no hard drive.
>>
>>   I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL
>>   1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB
>>   Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files
>>   to disk.
>>
>>   Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my
>>   friend on this one.
>>
>>   I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular
>>   luck, but I could be missing something.
>>   Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem.  I do know the
>>  Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these
>>  chips and FreeBSD!
>>
>>   Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard?
>>
>>           -Derek
>>  Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did -
>>  that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the
>>  one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects
>>  it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine.
>>  Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive?
>>
>>  On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the
>>hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order.  I
>>know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities.
>>I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation.  After you
>>had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out?
>>
>>          -Derek
>
>I think I'll go beat my lackey again.
>
>He was supposed to remove the jumper, and didn't do it.
>
>I took it off, and it's installing happily to the IDE drive.
>
>I'm gonna bag the SATA for now.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Kurt

I'm glad I could help.  As an FYI windows ignores a lot of hardware issues 
until it simply can't run anymore, where FreeBSD is much better at error 
checking.  Of course sometimes that can make it frustrating.

If you can get a decent SATA controller you might try adding or switching 
to SATA in the future, but avoid the Sil ones.

         -Derek


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