Re: FreeBSD > 4.11 hardware issue with Asus PSCH-SR/SATA mobo

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On 2006-06-11, KimmoA <kimmoa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What can I do? I can't even afford new hardware, and that would be
pretty silly anyway, since this is STANDARD HARDWARE!

There's no such thing as standard peecee hardware. It usually works,
mostly, but apparently you ran into something weird. Ok, not fun, I
know, but *** happens, and these are, after all, just peecees, built by
the cheapest bidder, ``designed for windows'', and all that.

I must admit to not having touched recent hardware recently so I
can only give general advice, but here goes:

There are a number of things you can do. One, figure out what the
problem really is caused by. By the looks of it, it is some strange
interaction between the installer and/or the terminal driver and/or
the hardware. You could ask a relevant freebsd mailinglist (start
with freebsd-questions, see the FreeBSD project site for more info).

Note that altough you made a valiant attempt at being factual, your
frustration still shines through, even getting in the way of facts now
and then, and you might want to work on that. You need a cool head to
fix this.

Next, you could try and circumvent the problem: You could try and poke
the installer to run over the first serial, then hook up a terminal (or
other peecee with a terminal emulator). See the handbook for that.

Another way is to take the disk out of the machine, and put it in some
other machine, then install enough of FreeBSD for it to boot, then
transplant it back. There's even multiple ways to do it: As a sole
disk and do the usual install things, or as an extra disk on a working
installation. In the latter case, you have to do the entire install
process by hand, but you can do so entirely without the installer.

So, you do have a number of options; probably even more than I just
mentioned. Do report back what you tried and whether you succeeded.


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