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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 and the ASUS PCI Motherboard Date: 11 Feb 1995 06:24:27 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3hhl6r$q66@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net Summary: Doesn't work! I went into the shop to pick up my new system today and discovered, somewhat to my horror, that FreeBSD doesn't seem to boot on it. I'd started with a boot disk made from the "January 1994" [sic] Walnut Creek CD-ROM, but upon encountering the errors described below, went and downloaded the boot disk from the 2.0-021092 snapshot and got the exact same results. I then went and downloaded the NetBSD 1.0 boot disks and found that the system booted just fine. (NetBSD seems to get through its autoconfig about six or eight times as fast as FreeBSD, BTW, though the messages aren't as informative.) Now this isn't that big a deal for me, as I was going to run NetBSD anyway. (My NetBSD CD-ROM hasn't arrived yet, so I thought the FreeBSD CD-ROM would do for testing.) However, I thought that the FreeBSD folks would want to know about this. I've got a 486/66 on an ASUS PVI-486 SP3 motherboard, which is a PCI-bus motherboard using an SiS chipset. One of the PCI slots has an ATI Graphics Pro, the other has the PCI-SC200 SCSI controller (NCR 53C810-based) that optionally accompanies the system board. What happens is that FreeBSD configures the graphics card and the SCSI controller just fine, and then goes on to find a second, identical graphics card and SCSI controller on the same interrupts. After it waits for the SCSI bus to settle on the "phantom" SCSI card (about twenty seconds) it tries to probe the SCSI bus for devices at which point the system hangs with the hard disk light on. FreeBSD claims to find the graphics card and SCSI controler at pci0:11 and pci0:12 respectively, and the phantom ones at pci0:23 and pci0:24, I believe. That's about all I have on the problem. If someone wants an exact copy of those hardware messages, I can boot it up again, copy them out and type them in. cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.