On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 > > > motherboard > > > with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install > > > process, and the install goes just fine. > > > > > > But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence, > > > draws the cute 5.x booto menu, then issues the messages: > > > > > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > > > > > panic: free: guard1 fail @0x5195c from > > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 > > > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- > > > > > > Booting with debug messages doesn't change this at all. > > > > This is in the loader. Your machine is seriously messed up. I'd suggest > > checking for a BIOS update. Also try rearranging your ATA channels and > > disabling DMA mode for the ATA controllers in the BIOS setup. > > I figured that out. Since writing the original message, I managed to > get the thing (mostly) working by hacking the loader to wire down the > values for the boot drive rather than having it probe for them. > > > Unfortunately ASUS boards of this type are known to have braindamaged > > ACPI, so this is only the beginning of a long, painful journey. :( > > How far does turning off ACPI in the BIOS go towards solving these > problems? I'd be surprised if it does much, if anything.
Reportedly, the machine doesn't boot. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
