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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: panic for historical reasons Date: 2 Mar 96 13:15:58 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 73 Message-ID: <arog.825772558@BIX.com> References: <4h5e1e$s8t@news.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com Kevin, Being the sort that I is, I'd first pull the non-rom controller out and try the install again. Assuming that That works, then I'd install the non-rom SCSI controller and experiment. *IF* my memory serves, and that controller has no rom on it, then it's clearly up to the FreeBSD code to find the needed ports so that it can talk to the drives 'out there' and if the code don't know about dem_ports, then all is lost. Re-reading your post, turn on the "boot_enable" before you yank the card. The processs of "POST" is to look first for a CMOS-RAM configured MFM/RLL/IDE drive. If it find one, then it will try and boot from it. As I undererstand the problem, it is one of getting FreeBSD to install on the 'boot' drive, and IDE in this case and thatr the SCSI controller/drive problem is simply 'getting.in.the.way' of that. Alan Ogden arog@BIX.com kswanson@BLaCKSMITH.com writes: >I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486 PC with the following >configuration: >L486 Series System Board >33 MHz Intel 486DX2 CPU >15MB Extended Memory >Onboard IDE Controller IRQ 14, ports 1f0-1f7 >Onboard SCSI Controller IRQ 11, ports 340h-35f >The SCSI controller is an Adaptec AHA-1510/AIC-6260. I have the onboard scsi >controller enabled, but i set it it be boot disabled, because the boot disk >is an IDE disk. >I have a SONY CDU-541 cdrom connected to an external scsi port. >I am attempting to boot from a floppy and install FreeBSD from the cdrom onto >the IDE boot disk. >When I boot from the floppy, the ide and scsi drivers seems okay: >wdc0 sees the IDE drive as wd0 >aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq11 on isa sees the Sony CDROM scsi device target 5 >the last line i see is: >rootfs is 1000 Kbyte compiled in MFS >then the screen clears and i get the following message: >panic: panic for historical reasons >machine will reboot in 15 seconds >press any key to stop >Has anybody encountered this error? any ideas? >Thanks, >Kevin Swanson >Kevin_Swanson@blacksmith.com