Cannot install 5.3 on tyan tiger 133

[Stacey Roberts]

Hi Chris,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Wall <chris.wall at cbrworld.com>"
To: To Stacey Roberts
Date: Mon, 29 Nov, 2004 15:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Cannot install 5.3 on tyan tiger 133

> Stacey Roberts wrote:
> 
> >Hi Mark,
> >  
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz>"
> >To: To freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> >Date: Mon, 29 Nov, 2004 07:17 GMT
> >Subject: Cannot install 5.3 on tyan tiger 133
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Recently I decided to make the switch from 4.x to 5.x, now that 5 has 
> >>moved to stable. So about a week ago I installed 5.3 on my workstation 
> >>machine, a Tyan Trinity 400. All went well, so yesterday I decided to do 
> >>my "server" - a Tyan Tiger 133. Since these shared the same chipset I 
> >>thought all would go well too.
> >>
> >>Not the case, I cannot even boot from the 5.3 cd - the machine hangs or 
> >>reboots immediately upon trying to boot the (I get a fleeting glance at 
> >>the drive mappings, that is all). I have verified the checksums on the 
> >>iso image I used (and the same cd installed the Trinity with no problems)
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I've got the same problem here on a Tyan Tiger 230 
> >(http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tiger230.html). As well as with your 
> >experiences, I can't seem to boot two sets of FreeBSD-5.3 REL CD-ROM sets 
> >from different suppliers. Here's what I get with any of the 5.3 REL 
> >installation cd's:
> >
> >Just at the point where you'd expect the /sbin/loader bit to start that 
> >goes into the FreeBSD boot process, I get lots of (what appears to be hex 
> >numbers) gibberish scrolling up the screen. Like you I thought that I 
> >might have a faulty cdrom drive, but swapping in a (sealed) drive produced 
> >the same results.
> >
> >However, the FreeBSD-4.10 REL cd's do appear to "start" working through 
> >the installation, but then I get lots of errors / warnings as follows:
> >
> >acdo: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting
> >ata1: resetting devices... done
> >
> >These scroll up the screen for ages and do not appear to be going anywhere 
> >- at which point I power down the system.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>This machine was running 4.10, and in case I have a suddenly bad cdrom, 
> >>I have installed 5.1 (the only other 5.x series I have lying around), 
> >>which completes fine.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I've not got 5.1, but I did try the 5.2.1 CD-ROM Set (from BSDMall) as 
> >well with the same failure. What I was able to do is successfully install 
> >MS Windows 2K Pro, 2K Server & Fedora Core-3 on the same hardware over the 
> >last few hours - in fact, its now running Fedora Core-3 (apparently) 
> >happily. I've attached the dmesg from the Fedora install for anyone that 
> >might be intested in what the problem might be.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Stacey
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Any ideas?
> >>
> >>More detailed specs on the machine:
> >>
> >>- Tyan Tiger 133 (S1834 Rev G)
> >>- 2xPIII 700/100/256 , 2G RAM, Promise TX2000, 2xMaxtor Plus 8 ATA-133 40G
> >>
> >>regards
> >>
> >>Mark
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> I didn't have any problems with my Tiger 133, although I am running a 
> SCSI disk setup.

I've got only SCSI disks on my system:
2 x QUANTUM   Model: ATLAS10K3_18_WLS  Rev: 020W

Running off of a Tekram DC-390U3W card:
sym0:1: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 62)

Its an SMP set up:
2 x Intel Pentium III 866:
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Total of 2 processors activated (3432.44 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
zapping low mappings.

Keeping in mind that the above output is from Fedora-Core3 built on the same machine early this morning..,

Did you install from FreeBSD-5.3 REL cd's?

Regards,

Stacey


> Processors 	2
> Model 	Intel Pentium III
> Chip MHz 	800 MHz
> PCI Devices 	agp0: VIA 82C691 (Apollo Pro) host to PCI bridge
> pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge
> isab0: PCI-ISA bridge
> atapci0: VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller
> ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter
> fxp0: Intel 82558 Pro/100 Ethernet
> IDE Devices 	/none/
> SCSI Devices 	cd0: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-305 1.06
> da0: IBM DNES-318350W SA30 (Capacity: 17.93 GB)
> 
> Chris