On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:49:14AM -0500, Brown, Steve wrote: > By the way, the issue was gone when I installed to one of the IDE drives. > > FreeBSD 6 must not like my SATA controller. At least it tries though. Red > Hat 9 and Solaris 10 would not recongnize it at all during installation.
What SATA controller is it? I know in particular the SiL3112 Silcon Image chipset is buggy hardware. If it's only an add-in card, you could try another one. I have a cheap Highpoint RocketRAID 1520. It works fine as a SATA controller, but the raid on it is fake-raid. There is little to no hardware support on it and it would be better to use FreeBSD's built-in software raid if you need it. By the way, the SiL3112 had problems on both linux and bsd, but it worked most of the time. I think the windows drivers they provide have a work-around in them for the buggy hardware, but would you really want buggy hardware? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brown, Steve > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:25 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes > > > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP > Pro) now. The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down > with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way. I'm > running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet. > However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the > install. It seems completely random. Sometimes I get to where it's mostly > configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long > enough to get to that point. Once it locks up, it will not respond to any > input. > > More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I > tried the obvious - not loading any. After getting it booted up that way > (which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it > will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it. I have also > tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but > it will still lock up. It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks > up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes > or so. > > I have tried booting the "without ACPI" option and it won't even boot up > that way due to some IRQ 19 error. Normally I see no real problems on the > screen during bootup. > > I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair > XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on > card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs > > Shouldn't this system be fully supported? > > I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's > the issue. > > Any other ideas would be appreciated. > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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