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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!pophh!wmdhh.wmd.de!pauck From: pauck@wmdhh.wmd.de (Marco Pauck;WMD GmbH) Subject: Installation desaster continues ... Message-ID: <1994Apr12.171605.26182@wmdhh.wmd.de> Organization: WMD, Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Messgeraete und Datenerfassung mbH Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 17:16:05 GMT Lines: 49 >>I just got Walnut Creek's FreeBSD CD-ROM and tried to install it on my >>system: > >>- 486, ISA, 8MB >>- BusLogic BT-545S controller >>- Fujitsu M2623 hard disk >>- Toshiba XM-3401 CD-ROM drive > >>The floppy boots fine but finally it hangs displaying: > >> ... >> aha0: aha_cmd, cmd/data port empty 3 >> aha0: above cmd/data port empty do to Buslogic 545 >> aha0: reading board settings, dma=5 int=11 >> aha0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa >> aha0: cmd fail >> aha0: abort failed in wait >> aha0: MBO not free [...] >>least I couldn't find any hints in the FAQ. > >I use NetBSD, not FreeBSD, so I may not be much help, but... Seems to >me you have the wrong kernel. It looks to me like it's trying to >start up the Adaptec driver. Do you have a kernel with "bt" in the >name (like freebsd-ahbbt or 386bsd-bt or something along those lines)? I didn't believed it but with the other kernel it really works! How silly I was to think the install docs (INSTALL.TXT) are correct, requesting to use the Adaptec kernel for BusLogic ... <grumble> (Anyway, many thanks to the both Michaels who suggested the right thing!) However, lucky me, there is a new problem: In app. 9 of 10 cases, the system boots from floppy but then hangs after switching the root device to floppy with "stray intr 7". In the remaining case, it goes a little further but finally hangs with the same problem. Again, I spent hours experimenting with the parallel port, and yes, I read the FAQ. However, its recommendation to ignore this problem isn't very helpful if the system hangs. I'll give *BSD a last chance before I'll trash it ... Marco -- Marco Pauck - WMD GmbH Hamburg, Germany e-mail: pauck@wmdhh.wmd.de, phone: +49-40-58958-120, fax: +49-40-58958-199 echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc