Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote:

The specs of the system are:
Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard
AMD Athlon64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz
Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579)
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1
Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card

One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk? This will
be helpful to narrow down the issue...

Thanks for the response! What you suggested worked -- I removed the SATA
cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0 BETA4
AMD64 LiveFS cd.

Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard also
has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is:
atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller>

I've got two disks attached in RAID1 to the VIA 6420 controller. Works
fine here (7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD amd64). Try connecting your disks to the
via controller.

Roland
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