Dean Patterson wrote: > Well not all D610's are created equally. I work in > the Caterpillar IT dept. and even our orders from one > week to another differ. The one I am using has a SATA > controller (ICH6M) with ATI pci-x video. Is this what > you are using? As far as the setup I am doing a > simple one slice system and setting is active. And I > check it on vc4 and it shows active. I am also just > doing a minimal install so I dont understand what > could be different than the many other installs. I > had it on a Dell D600 with no problems, but it was > PATA. Although I dont know why SATA would cause an > issue as I know FBSD to have great SATA support. How > can I get the dmesg info for you from sysinstall/vc4? > I really appreciate your assistance. Hmm.. Well, the ones I've seen seem to match the same specs, and while I have seen linux (Fedora Core 2) stumble on it, FreeBSD has always worked fine for me on D610's (and 600's). Can you do a full install? Also, I didn't see the fdisk or bsdlabel info - can you post that somewhere? You might be able to boot a FreeSBIE disk or even one of the recently posted (on -advocacy I think) BSD CD boot disks, and then send the dmesg that way. So - if I understand correctly, it just never mounts the root filesystem? We really need to see the last chunk of a verbose boot I think plus the fdisk/bsdlabel info to get any further. Are you in Houston? Eric > --- Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com> wrote: > > >>It had the ICH6M, but the 915GM is graphics I >>believe (so shouldn't >>matter). Here's a somewhat recent dmesg output: >> >>http://googlebit.com/freebsd/dmesg.txt.200508062026 >> >>I'd guess either it's a BIOS config problem, or >>something that was >>selected on installed. We have several D610's, and >>all the times I've >>tried installing FreeBSD on them, I've had no >>issues. >> >>I don't believe we ever saw the output of bsdlabel >>and fdisk on ad0 - >>can you send that please? >> >>Eric >> >> >>Dean Patterson wrote: >> >>>Do you have the Intel 915GM chipset and the ICH6M >> >>SATA >> >>>controller? >>> >>>--- Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Dean Patterson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Well I checked it using the shell and it was >>>> >>>>marked as >>>> >>>> >>>>>active. But the problem is that the ATA driver >>>> >>>>only >>>> >>>> >>>>>supports up to ICH5, per the man pages. So how >> >>is >> >>>>>that situation handled? I assume that I am NEVER >>>>>going to run FBSD on this laptop? >>>> >>>>For what it's worth, I ran 5.4, 6.0, and 7.0 on a >>>>D610 with no problems. >>>> >>>>Eric >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>--- Darren Pilgrim <dmp_at_bitfreak.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>From: Dean Patterson >> >>[mailto:psamuel01_at_yahoo.com] >> >>>>>> >>>>>>>I am sorry I should have mentioned that I also >>>>>> >>>>>>tried >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>explicitly setting the slice active. I will >> >>try >> >>>>>>again >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>and check it using the shell; however, when I >>>>>> >>>>>>tried >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>using the holographic shell nothing worked. I >>>>>> >>>>>>tried >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>using fdisk, bsdlabel, and ls and I always get >>>> >>>>the >>>> >>>> >>>>>>>message "command not found." >>>>>> >>>>>>The holographic shell is not the same as the >>>> >>>>fix-it >>>> >>>> >>>>>>shell. The >>>>>>holographic shell lacks, among other things >> >>proper >> >>>>>>paths, which makes it >>>>>>impossible to run many programs. The "Fix-It" >>>> >>>>shell >>>> >>>> >>>>>>is a menu option in >>>>>>sysinstall and starts a fully-functional shell. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>__________________________________________________ >>>> >>>>>Do You Yahoo!? >>>>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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