Hi I have a new box here a Intel DP45GS and a Quad core Intel with 4GB ram that I would like to install FreeBSD on. I've tried booting with 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8-BETA2 amd64 and all get stuck on: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 I found the following: http://blog.elitecoderz.net/freebsd-freezes-on-trying-to-mount-root-from-ufsdevmd0-and-is-stucked/2009/01/ Which suggests disabling USB2 I don't seem to have that bios option and tried disabling USB completely, but still no joy. (also leaves me without a keyboard ;-) There are no PATA ports for me to mount an older cdrom and there are only USB ports on the motherboard. I'm a bit stuck as to how I should proceed, any ideas welcome. Kind regards -- David Peall
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:39 +0200, David Peall wrote:> Hi > > I have a new box here a Intel DP45GS and a Quad core Intel with 4GB ram that I would like to install FreeBSD on. > I've tried booting with 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8-BETA2 amd64 and all get stuck on: > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0How long have you waited for? If you get the option in the BIOS, can you try disabling the floppy drive or the floppy drive controller and see if that makes a difference? Also, do you get any extra info out of the system if you select "boot with verbose logging" from the boot menu? Gavin
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, David Peall wrote:> I found the following: > http://blog.elitecoderz.net/freebsd-freezes-on-trying-to-mount-root-f >rom-ufsdevmd0-and-is-stucked/2009/01/ > > Which suggests disabling USB2 I don't seem to have that bios option > and tried disabling USB completely, but still no joy. (also leaves me > without a keyboard ;-) > > There are no PATA ports for me to mount an older cdrom and there are > only USB ports on the motherboard. I'm a bit stuck as to how I > should proceed, any ideas welcome.I did not have any trouble installing on an Intel DQ45CB, however I did have a few video driver issues until I upgraded the BIOS. Do you have the latest BIOS installed? When you say it's stuck does pressing scrolllock and paging back work? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20090804/c6eeea6b/attachment.pgp
There is no such beast, I assume you mean a DP45SG? http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DP45SG/DP45SG-overview.htm So, what kind of disk, what kind of CD, I have one of these systems at home, I don't happen to run FreeBSD on it, but I could do a test install tonight and check. Jack On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:39 AM, David Peall <david@esn.org.za> wrote:> Hi > > I have a new box here a Intel DP45GS and a Quad core Intel with 4GB ram > that I would like to install FreeBSD on. > I've tried booting with 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8-BETA2 amd64 and all get stuck > on: > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 > > I found the following: > > http://blog.elitecoderz.net/freebsd-freezes-on-trying-to-mount-root-from-ufsdevmd0-and-is-stucked/2009/01/ > > Which suggests disabling USB2 I don't seem to have that bios option and > tried disabling USB completely, but still no joy. (also leaves me without a > keyboard ;-) > > There are no PATA ports for me to mount an older cdrom and there are only > USB ports on the motherboard. I'm a bit stuck as to how I should proceed, > any ideas welcome. > > Kind regards > > -- > David Peall > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >