>>> Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/06 7:36 PM >>> Glen Van Lehn wrote: > Hi, I'm new to the FreeBSD lists, and still uncertain on protocol. > > I posted this today on the freebsd-hardware list, but from the discussion I'm > seeing today, it may better apply to 5-stable than hardware. > ----- > I'm installing 5-STABLE from the 5.4 CDset onto a new HP DL140 G2 with an > Adaptec 2120S RAID controller that someone else had already installed with a > Linux OS. Two HDD are config'd as RAID1 set. After the probes for VGA & > mouse, the boot stuck on a repeated series of messages: > > aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef000 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS > # 16 diff hex offsets per set .. each set repeating every 20 seconds > aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef708 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS > > A different boot has a different hex prefix, 0xc3a16, but the same sequence > of 16 trailing digits, 000 to 708. > > Searching this list, I found a similar post from Chris Knight in January, but > he was on 6 and that was apparently right at a change to the aac driver. > Searching FreeBSD.org turned up a similar problem back in March 2004 [5.2.1]. > Scott Long responded to that one as a known issue being resolved. > > The BIOS firmware was 'Build 7244' from May 2004, but I updated that to Build > 8205 [latest for that chipset] and still had the same problem. > > Would the pre-existing different OS install mess up the aac0 driver? like > format the array first? > I broke the array, re-inited the disks and recreated RAID 1.. but didn't > format drives .. still had problem. > > something else? I was able to install Fedora4 after failing on 5.4, but > I'd like to use FreeBSD for this project. > > comments appreciated, > > glen van lehn >
Does the 'Safe mode' boot option work? This is likely an interrupt routing problem. Scott ---- Yes! it did, thank you. glen _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
