Bug 22852

Summary:	Abit KT/7 Raid makes install hang
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	xgote <xgote>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description xgote 2000-11-14 22:00:01 UTC

Whenever I try to install bsd on a abit kt7/raid (ata/100) using an IBM Deskstar 30g, it locks up in the installation right after you label your partitions and it goes to make a new file system.. it seems to make it just fine, but then it just hangs there and the hard drive stops working.  I have tried installing bsd onto the drive when I have put the cable onto a regular ata/33 interface and it works just fine, but after I install it and then move it to an ata/100 interface, it asks me to mount something.. I have tried everything I could think of given what it tells me in the startup.  It says the drive is being detected at starup as "ad4", when I try to mount the root, it seems successful but then puts me into single user mode and I can't mount the other partitions.  Also the raid uses a highpoint controller (some weird bios software), their website is: highpoint-tech.com

Thanks

How-To-Repeat: Install BSD 4.0 on a KT7/Raid machine.

Comment 1 keichii 2000-11-15 02:00:27 UTC

| It says the drive is being detected at starup as "ad4", when I try to
| mount the root, it seems successful but then puts me into single user
| mode and I can't mount the other partitions.  Also the raid uses a
|  highpoint controller (some weird bios software), their website is:
| highpoint-tech.com

This is not a problem of FreeBSD, nor is it "weird HPT bios software problem."
The boot loader expects the root partition to be on ad4.

Solution:
Set in KT7 board bios: boot sequence: EXT/ATA, C, A
During the ten second countdown to kernel loading, push any key
other than enter.  Upon showing a prompt, type:
lsdev
(look through each device and find the root partition)
set currdev="disk4sxxxx"  (depending on the location of your root partition)
boot

In the future, please search -questions archives first.  In addition,
please set currdev in /boot/loader.conf

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Comment 2 Søren Schmidt freebsd_committer

2001-05-30 10:36:07 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This can be closed now.