Solution found !!! For the tyan i7520 mobo, you must go to the boot loader prompt and type set hint.apic.0.disabled="1". This clears up the issues. ke.han wrote: > Dear list, > I have been continuing efforts to get the Tyan i7520 mobo to work with > freeBSD 6. Here are some of the problems. I have tried the things > suggested by others like turning on/off Hyperthreading...no luck. > > If I can't find a solution by Monday, I will be forced to pull this mobo > and buy another. This is costly, but not compared to the time and face > I've lost over the past month. Centos 4.2 installs/works perfect. So > this is a problem between freeBSD 6 installer and the mobo, not the mobo > itself. freeBSD 5.4 gives my similar problems. > > Here are a few of the problems with freeBSD 6 and the tyan i7520: > > 1 - Floppy not found. I was able to fix this by turning off the onboard > SATA. > 2 - EIDE or SATA drive connected directly to respective mobo controller > not found. I'm not an expert at hints, but I tried a few things and no > luck. > 3 - 3Ware 9550sx card not found. With the latest not-released 9.3.0.2 > driver called twa_9ksx.ko, I was able to get the module loaded during > sysinstall and the card was usable and the install completed. After > reboot, I entered boot prompt and reloaded the same module and boot but > this time the card does not work. Another sided effect of loading this > module in sysinstall is that after it is loaded, the installer tells me > it can't find my cdrom to complete the install...yes, the same cdrom I > have booted the installer with. But an ftp install from this point worked. > > So, I would like any suggestions as to fixing item 3 above or find a > suitable mobo to replace. If I end up replacing the mobo I am happy to > gift the tyan i7520 to a team member that wants to debug with it. > > My mobo requirements are straightforward: > > 1 - Ethernet - two ports, great throughput with _no patches_ for all the > freeBSD 6 advance networking features: pf, altq, kqueue, polling. I > just want it work right "out of the box". > 2 - works with my 3ware 9550sx-4lp card. > 3 - It would be very nice if the sysinstall recognized my cd and floppy > with no hints or any other tricks. > > thanks, ke han > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Sun Dec 04 2005 - 16:30:52 UTC
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