r0nster
08-12-2001, 09:44 PM
This is long so bear with me :)
Previously I had an Abit KA7 (which died on me early this year and was replaced by the KT7). All of my hardware carried over. I also installed freeBSD 4.0 onto my system with the older motherboard with sucess (and boy was it fast). It seems that it [freeBSD] doesn't like this particular motherboard. So if any of you happen to run an Abit KT7 and use freeBSD 4.0 (or newer) I would like to hear from you.
Here's what happens: I go through the install process and opt to install no boot manager (because I use boot magic). After freeBSD is installed, I boot to windoze to enable freeBSD in the boot magic configuration. Reboot. Choose freeBSD/386 from the menu and then greeted by: read error and nothing else.
Setting it as an active partition or not has no effect. It is installed to my 2nd hard disk (where it shares with Linux; Linux boots with no problem)
When I go through the fdisk and disklabel programs, all seems to go well. In fact, the installation seems to behave and progress properly.
I'm to suspect that my board's IDE chipset is flaky becasue I went to another console (ALT-F2) to watch the list of files scroll by and every so often catch a CRC error.
My hard disks: primary master: WD 20.5GB udma66
primary slave: WD 13.6 GB udma66
FreeBSD 4.0 does recognize my chipset (via686a) and sets it up to use ata66.
The Abit KA7 and KT7 use the same southbridge (via82c686a).
I definitely gave it enough room to install (1.7 gigs) and only 50% was taken up overall.
I'm stumped at the moment. :confused: I even installed it to an old 486DX2 with 16MB of ram and it works with no problem.
/me scratches head in disbelief
Previously I had an Abit KA7 (which died on me early this year and was replaced by the KT7). All of my hardware carried over. I also installed freeBSD 4.0 onto my system with the older motherboard with sucess (and boy was it fast). It seems that it [freeBSD] doesn't like this particular motherboard. So if any of you happen to run an Abit KT7 and use freeBSD 4.0 (or newer) I would like to hear from you.
Here's what happens: I go through the install process and opt to install no boot manager (because I use boot magic). After freeBSD is installed, I boot to windoze to enable freeBSD in the boot magic configuration. Reboot. Choose freeBSD/386 from the menu and then greeted by: read error and nothing else.
Setting it as an active partition or not has no effect. It is installed to my 2nd hard disk (where it shares with Linux; Linux boots with no problem)
When I go through the fdisk and disklabel programs, all seems to go well. In fact, the installation seems to behave and progress properly.
I'm to suspect that my board's IDE chipset is flaky becasue I went to another console (ALT-F2) to watch the list of files scroll by and every so often catch a CRC error.
My hard disks: primary master: WD 20.5GB udma66
primary slave: WD 13.6 GB udma66
FreeBSD 4.0 does recognize my chipset (via686a) and sets it up to use ata66.
The Abit KA7 and KT7 use the same southbridge (via82c686a).
I definitely gave it enough room to install (1.7 gigs) and only 50% was taken up overall.
I'm stumped at the moment. :confused: I even installed it to an old 486DX2 with 16MB of ram and it works with no problem.
/me scratches head in disbelief