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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!solace!umdac!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.uni-c.dk!diku.dk!phantom From: phantom@diku.dk (Haktan Bulut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install problems ncr Date: 30 May 1996 09:35:28 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 20 Sender: phantom@vidar.diku.dk Message-ID: <4ojq50$hq4@vidar.diku.dk> References: <nd420k53k6v.fsf@burg.is.ge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vidar.diku.dk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #13 burg@burg.is.ge.com (Dick van den Burg) writes: >I have problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 on an Asus P55tp4 with the Asus NCR >SCSI controller. When the (novice) install tries to write the partition table >I get a panic: The main screen says that init has died and the debug >screen says: >ncr? scatter/gather failed residue = 1619921920 >sdo: oops not queued > biodone buffer already done > init died (signal 0 exit I have an ASUS P55TP4XE board with ASUS SC-200 SCSI (NCR) controller and it works very well. Maybe a BIOS-update of your motherboard will help (be carefull with that if you haven't tried it before, it is not difficult, but a single error during the flashing can trash your BIOS). Haktan Bulut - phantom@diku.dk -- Haktan Bulut - phantom@diku.dk