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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!gemsw3s1.med.ge.com!news.ge.com!luss.is.ge.com!news From: burg@burg.is.ge.com (Dick van den Burg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install problems ncr Date: 06 Jun 1996 17:01:13 +0200 Organization: GEIS international Inc. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <nd4g2897z9i.fsf@burg.is.ge.com> References: <nd420k53k6v.fsf@burg.is.ge.com> <4ojq50$hq4@vidar.diku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: burg.is.ge.com X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.35/XEmacs 19.13 The problem was not with the ncr driver: I hooked up a spare scsi disk, installed a minimum FreeBSD setup on the disk and then ran fdisk and disklabel on the problem disk. Disklabel showed me an old FBSD 1.1 style label. I changed that to a new slice based disklabel, copied the minimal installation from the spare disk and I am now back in business. I suspect that the old disklabel somehow confused in the sysinstall. I have not re-tried to install FBSD from a floppy to see whether it now would work. I do not particularly want to upgrade the bios: if it ain't broke, don't fix it ... Dick In article <4ojq50$hq4@vidar.diku.dk> phantom@diku.dk (Haktan Bulut) writes: > From: phantom@diku.dk (Haktan Bulut) > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Date: 30 May 1996 09:35:28 GMT > Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen > > 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