Stacey Roberts wrote:
Hi Mark,I didn't have any problems with my Tiger 133, although I am running a SCSI disk setup.
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From: "Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
To: To [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Nov, 2004 07:17 GMT
Subject: Cannot install 5.3 on tyan tiger 133
Recently I decided to make the switch from 4.x to 5.x, now that 5 has moved to stable. So about a week ago I installed 5.3 on my workstation machine, a Tyan Trinity 400. All went well, so yesterday I decided to do my "server" - a Tyan Tiger 133. Since these shared the same chipset I thought all would go well too.
Not the case, I cannot even boot from the 5.3 cd - the machine hangs or reboots immediately upon trying to boot the (I get a fleeting glance at the drive mappings, that is all). I have verified the checksums on the iso image I used (and the same cd installed the Trinity with no problems)
I've got the same problem here on a Tyan Tiger 230 (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tiger230.html). As well as with your experiences, I can't seem to boot two sets of FreeBSD-5.3 REL CD-ROM sets from different suppliers. Here's what I get with any of the 5.3 REL installation cd's:
Just at the point where you'd expect the /sbin/loader bit to start that goes into the FreeBSD boot process, I get lots of (what appears to be hex numbers) gibberish scrolling up the screen. Like you I thought that I might have a faulty cdrom drive, but swapping in a (sealed) drive produced the same results.
However, the FreeBSD-4.10 REL cd's do appear to "start" working through the installation, but then I get lots of errors / warnings as follows:
acdo: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata1: resetting devices... done
These scroll up the screen for ages and do not appear to be going anywhere - at which point I power down the system.
This machine was running 4.10, and in case I have a suddenly bad cdrom, I have installed 5.1 (the only other 5.x series I have lying around), which completes fine.
I've not got 5.1, but I did try the 5.2.1 CD-ROM Set (from BSDMall) as well with the same failure. What I was able to do is successfully install MS Windows 2K Pro, 2K Server & Fedora Core-3 on the same hardware over the last few hours - in fact, its now running Fedora Core-3 (apparently) happily. I've attached the dmesg from the Fedora install for anyone that might be intested in what the problem might be.
Regards,
Stacey
Any ideas?
More detailed specs on the machine:
- Tyan Tiger 133 (S1834 Rev G) - 2xPIII 700/100/256 , 2G RAM, Promise TX2000, 2xMaxtor Plus 8 ATA-133 40G
regards
Mark
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Processors 2
Model Intel Pentium III
Chip MHz 800 MHz
PCI Devices agp0: VIA 82C691 (Apollo Pro) host to PCI bridge
pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge
atapci0: VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller
ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter
fxp0: Intel 82558 Pro/100 Ethernet
IDE Devices /none/
SCSI Devices cd0: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-305 1.06
da0: IBM DNES-318350W SA30 (Capacity: 17.93 GB)
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