Boot problem on a P4P800-based computer

[Noor Dawod]

Will post the informatin right after I install FreeBSD on the machine.
By the way, here's a link to this motherboard on the manufacturer's
website:

http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p800/overview.htm

Noor


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Soeren Schmidt [mailto:sos at spider.deepcore.dk] 
| Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:00 AM
| To: Wes Peters
| Cc: Noor Dawod; FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List; sos at FreeBSD.ORG
| Subject: Re: Boot problem on a P4P800-based computer
| 
| 
| It seems Wes Peters wrote:
| >On Thursday 05 June 2003 09:27, Noor Dawod wrote:
| >> Hi all,
| >>
| >> The problem was solved!
| >> This motherboard supports Serial ATA ports, and this 
| option was ON in 
| >> the BIOS. Turning it OFF, and adjusting the auto-detect 
| mode in the 
| >> BIOS, solved the problem.
| >>
| >> FreeBSD's probed the Serial ATA ports I guess and hanged there... 
| >> Maybe one of the developers might want to add a check for 
| serial ATA 
| >> in the kernel in future releases...
| >
| >Glad you're up and running.
| >
| >Maybe Soren can shed some light on this.  Soren, he's running 4.8 
| >RELEASE and the boot probe seems to stick when he hits the onboard 
| >S-ATA ports.  Should this work in 4.8?
| 
| 4.x lacks support for alot of the newer chips out there, 
| including most SATA parts (depends on model/vendor of cause).
| 
| However I need to know which chip this is to be certain, 
| dmesg/pciconf -l output would be handy..
| 
| -Søren
| 
|