Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk

On Dec 27, 2007 5:29 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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 7.0BETA4
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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Thanks for the reply. That's good to know about the VIA controller. I'm
not quite ready to wipe my current disks yet, which I think I would have to
do to switch RAID controllers, but may go that route in the future. I also
confirmed I can install on a plain IDE harddrive, so may just do that for
immediate testing.

Thanks,
Seth
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