i tried both the 7-stable and 7.0-RELEASE livefs disks and when i went into fixit then to CD/DVD livefs it would ask me for the livefs cd (which i had in the drive and which i booted from) it looks like i cant even mount the image of the livefs disk from the cd-rom drive. also iv noticed that when i reboot after booting into the sysinstaller the bios gets about 2/3 of the way booted and stops and i have to hold the power and reboot to get back into opensuse/vista.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Shaun Sabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since it is not 7-stable im interested in shouldnt i use the 7.0-RELEASE > livefs? > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:04:28PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote: > > > I checked to make sure that the hard disks are not in raid > > configuration and > > > there are not. i also checked and my bios are at the latest version > > > available (A11). also this is an XPS 600 not 700 and i have the > > correct > > > users manual in paper and digital formats. how would you like the > > dmesg to > > > be presented? i dont think i have any way to writing it to a thumb > > drive or > > > such devices from the installer. should i just take digital pictures? > > > > Digital pictures would be fine, unless you want to try the serial > > console route (chances are you don't have this sort of environment set > > up, so it's probably more effective to take photos). > > > > One thing: does Linux detect your disks on this system? > > > > I'd recommend downloading one of the recent RELENG_7 snapshot CDs, > > specifically the "livefs" one, and boot it. dmesg doesn't come with the > > standard installation disc (disc1), hence why I'm recommending livefs. > > The snapshots are available here: > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804 > > > > You probably want one of these two: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804/7.0-STABLE-200804-amd64-livefs.iso > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804/7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-livefs.iso > > > > dmesg should show some ATA stuff at the end, assuming you're familiar > > with FreeBSD's kernel output. Something like this, assuming the > > physical disks are detected: > > > > ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150 > > ad6: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 12.01C02> at ata3-master SATA300 > > ad8: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata4-master SATA300 > > ad10: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata5-master SATA300 > > > > You'll need to work backwards to figure out what is connected to what, > > e.g.: > > > > $ dmesg | grep ata2 > > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > > ata2: [ITHREAD] > > ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150 > > > > $ dmesg | grep atapci1 > > atapci1: <Intel AHCI controller> port > > 0x30e8-0x30ef,0x30dc-0x30df,0x30e0-0x30e7,0x30d8-0x30db,0x30b0-0x30bf mem > > 0xe8600400-0xe86007ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 > > atapci1: [ITHREAD] > > atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected > > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 > > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1 > > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1 > > > > Otherwise, if none of this works, you'll need to somehow provide the > > full output of "pciconf -lv", which will be many screen fulls of data. > > You'll probably have to pipe it through "more", take a shot, hit > > spacebar, take another shot, etc... > > > > Please post URLs to the photos, rather than attaching them. The mailing > > list software does not take kindly to large attachments. > > > > -- > > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"