Re: Annoying FreeBSD > 4.11 ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA mobo incompability

From: Kimmo Alm <kimmoa_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:06:01 +0200
> Hey,
>
> My ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA won't work in FreeBSD versions over 4.x. I have  
> tested 5.x, 6.x and even a current 7.x one.
>
> CD: "bootonly".
> Problem: Loads kernel, and then basically freezes, overwriting  
> characters on the screen (at the boot menu with the options).
>
> Among the zillions of things I've tested to solve this problem include:  
> Testing another videocard (PCI -- not on-board), testing without the  
> S-ATA enabled, updated BIOS to the latest version (hardware made in 2004  
> and last BIOS update in late 2005), changing a ton of settings in the  
> BIOS, installing the OS on another box and moving the HDD... Nothing  
> works.
>
> The hardware cannot possibly not faulty as it can run Debian Linux or  
> FreeBSD 4.11 perfectly well. That's right. No probbies there. But I  
> don't want to run Linux and I don't want to run legacy FreeBSD...
>
> I don't know what else to say... I have really, really did my best and  
> tested every potentional solution. No luck.
>
> I am now asking you to please look into this and perhaps come up with  
> some kind of solution/patch. This is a standard hardware server  
> motherboard, which apparently has won a lot of awards for being so great  
> and flexible on top of that! It really makes little sense to me that  
> this would not be supported by FreeBSD!
>
> Also check out the Usenet thread with extra info:  
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/c9f5097c099d1e71/ea90c898595972e6?hl=en&
>
> Thank you for reading this.

I have finally found out what the error is. I hope this will help anyone  
who might be having the same problem.

You simply switch off a jumper on the mobo which handles the RAID support.  
This causes the FreeBSD installer to come to its senses!
Received on Wed Jun 14 2006 - 08:28:44 UTC

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