Hi Mark,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>"
To: To freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 29 Nov, 2004 07:17 GMT
Subject: Cannot install 5.3 on tyan tiger 133
> Recently I decided to make the switch from 4.x to 5.x, now that 5 has
> moved to stable. So about a week ago I installed 5.3 on my workstation
> machine, a Tyan Trinity 400. All went well, so yesterday I decided to do
> my "server" - a Tyan Tiger 133. Since these shared the same
chipset I
> thought all would go well too.
>
> Not the case, I cannot even boot from the 5.3 cd - the machine hangs or
> reboots immediately upon trying to boot the (I get a fleeting glance at
> the drive mappings, that is all). I have verified the checksums on the
> iso image I used (and the same cd installed the Trinity with no problems)
I've got the same problem here on a Tyan Tiger 230
(http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tiger230.html). As well as with your
experiences, I can't seem to boot two sets of FreeBSD-5.3 REL CD-ROM sets
from different suppliers. Here's what I get with any of the 5.3 REL
installation cd's:
Just at the point where you'd expect the /sbin/loader bit to start that goes
into the FreeBSD boot process, I get lots of (what appears to be hex numbers)
gibberish scrolling up the screen. Like you I thought that I might have a faulty
cdrom drive, but swapping in a (sealed) drive produced the same results.
However, the FreeBSD-4.10 REL cd's do appear to "start" working
through the installation, but then I get lots of errors / warnings as follows:
acdo: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting
ata1: resetting devices... done
These scroll up the screen for ages and do not appear to be going anywhere - at
which point I power down the system.
>
> This machine was running 4.10, and in case I have a suddenly bad cdrom,
> I have installed 5.1 (the only other 5.x series I have lying around),
> which completes fine.
I've not got 5.1, but I did try the 5.2.1 CD-ROM Set (from BSDMall) as well
with the same failure. What I was able to do is successfully install MS Windows
2K Pro, 2K Server & Fedora Core-3 on the same hardware over the last few
hours - in fact, its now running Fedora Core-3 (apparently) happily. I've
attached the dmesg from the Fedora install for anyone that might be intested in
what the problem might be.
Regards,
Stacey
>
> Any ideas?
>
> More detailed specs on the machine:
>
> - Tyan Tiger 133 (S1834 Rev G)
> - 2xPIII 700/100/256 , 2G RAM, Promise TX2000, 2xMaxtor Plus 8 ATA-133 40G
>
> regards
>
> Mark
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