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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:46:36 GMT
From: Achilles Speliotopoulos<achilles@sonic.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Installation fails on new Intel 965 motherboards.
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>Number:         108172
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       [ata] installation fails on new Intel 965 motherboards.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    delphij
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 21 03:50:17 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Fri Nov 21 06:28:49 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Fri Nov 21 06:28:49 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Achilles Speliotopoulos
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
Could not install on Intel 965-series motherboard, and a Core 2 Duo E6400 processor.
>Description:
I recently installed FreeBSD 6.2on my new machine.  Details of the
machine are as follows:

Machine: Velocity Micro Student Edition.  It has Intel DG965RY
motherboard/chip set.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400

Memory: 1GB

Partitions: Contained one WD SATA 320GB HD with Win XP Pro, and one
Seagate SATA 400GB HD partition into three partitions.  Install was on a
300GB partition on the Seagate drive.

DVD Drives:  One Lite-on DVD-RW and one DVDROM drive.

I downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2 ISO's for amd64, and burned them on a CDs.  I then
tried to install from the DVD drive.  The install did not find the CDROM
drives.  This is most likely because of the new Intel 965 motherboards has
drivers that are not compatible with FreeBSD.  (They are not compatible
with most Linux distributions. Take a look at
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/linux/tech/319373.htm.

In fact, I tried to install Fedora Core 6 and Debian (both 3.01r4 and
4.0 test versions), and the exact same problem happens; they were not
able to detect the CDROMS as well. I was finally able to install Fedora
Core 6 by first installing WinXP on a 16GB FAT16 partition, and then
did a hard drive install.  It worked (although Fedora cannot use the
audio), although Fedora cannot see my two DVD drives. I tried to do a
hard drive install with FreeBSD using a similar trick, but could not
get the installer to find the installation files on the dos partition.

From the newsgroups and forums, this problem seems to be coming more and
more prevalent as Core 2 Duo processors are become more popular.  A "fix"
for LINUX that I found on comp.os.linux.setup was to use "all-generic-ide"
or "linux acpi=off all-generic-ide".  It seemed to work for other
people, but it did not work for my machine.  The installer was able to
detect the DVD drives, but when it started anaconda, the machine hanged.
I suspect that it is because my hard drives are SATA drives.  I do not know if such a fix will work for FreeBSD.

Best reagrds,

Achilles Speliotopoulos 

>How-To-Repeat:
Just try installing again.  I also tried installing with acpi off.
>Fix:
Try instaliing without using CDROMs.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
To: Achilles Speliotopoulos <achilles@sonic.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/108172: Installation fails on new Intel 965 motherboards.
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:48:27 +0100

 Achilles Speliotopoulos wrote:
 > 
 > Machine: Velocity Micro Student Edition.  It has Intel DG965RY
 > motherboard/chip set.
 > 
 
 There is support in CURRENT for the Marvell ATA chip used on recent 
 Intel motherboards. The driver have not been MFC:d to RELENG_6 yet.
 If you can get FreeBSD 6.2 on the disk you can copy the below files from 
 CURRENT and recompile your kernel, this works on my DG965SS & DP965LT 
 boards.
 
 src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c
 src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h
 
 
 /Martin
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 24 09:36:37 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
To submitter: does the workaround that Martin suggested work for you? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-amd64->linimon 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Apr 24 09:36:37 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108172 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->suspended 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Wed Apr 25 06:06:16 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
The chip is supported in -current, but has not been MFCed yet.  Adopting 
the two files mentioned in the Audit-Trail is the workaround. 

See kern/104875.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108172 
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->feedback 
State-Changed-By: delphij 
State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 3 08:00:39 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Dear submitter, 

Will a new 6.x (e.g. 6.3) fix the problem mentioned?  I have 
MFC'ed some fixes as mentioned in kern/104875 (which is now 
closed). 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: linimon->delphij 
Responsible-Changed-By: delphij 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Nov 3 08:00:39 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108172 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: delphij 
State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 21 06:28:29 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout, we believe that this on has been fixed. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108172 
>Unformatted:
