Re: Problems installing Fre*BSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:58:56 -0700 (PDT)
Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> 
> >
> > Looks like you cannot reboot after an install since the
> > driver is not part of the OS you just finished installing.
> >
> > This is what you can do:
> >
> > 1. While installing the OS, load the driver from a floppy
> > (sysinstall->Configure->KLDLoad).  You are probably already
> > doing this.
> > 2. After installation, during reboot, escape to the loader
> > prompt, and again with a floppy with the driver inserted,
> > load the driver by doing 'load disk0:twa.ko'.
> > 3. Do a 'boot' and you should be able to boot.
> 
> Vinod, the problem is that loader itself is crashing.  It dies before you
> even get the loader prompt. Its as if the BIOS is not reading the array
> properly and returns bad data, or the BIOS is corrupting memory during
> certain reads.
> 
> There are known cases where turning on DMA in the BIOS can cause BTX
> panics due to overly-promiscuous BIOS code, but this doesn't seem to be
> one of those cases.
> 

Due to little time i was not able to contact 3ware-support yet.

But i tried to install that thing one more time. This time i downloaded a new 4.10 image and installed with that.
boot-loader _does_ work with freebsd 4.10 although it page-faults later on boot. with 4.10 i can get to loader-prompt.

4.10 has twa build in, right? it's not mentioned in the hardware-notes on freebsd.org.
i was able to load twa.ko of a disk in loader, but that is quite unuable as twa is already build into generic-kernel.


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