7.1-RELEASE; DP45SG ; unable to get to sysinstall screen

_martin

_martin

Hello everybody,

I never had such hard time installing freebsd as these last few days. I have an Intel's DP45SG motherboard with Xeon 3110 in it.

I was trying to install amd64 7.1-RELEASE (via pxe,CD/DVD) - no success at all. I'm not even able to get to the sysinstall menu. I always get stuck with last message (verbose logging):

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
start_init: trying /sbin/init
start_init: trying /sbin/oinit
start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak
start_init: trying /rescue/init
start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall

And that's it - no more response, no nothing. I tried to disable sio's (http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-437.html) - didn't help. :(


I tried i386 and amd64 versions - same results on fbsd 7.
When I tried to use 6.4 i got stucked - USB keyboard won't work (there's no PS/2, USB legacy support is enabled in BIOS).

I would appreciate any hints .. thanks
 
i got serial console attached to the board finally so i'm able to provide more information .. i attached 4 boot outputs, with 3 different peripheral setting in BIOS + one verbose output ..

I can see there are a lot of errors regarding IRQ allocations but so far I didn't come up with the reason why :(


i have installed freebsd 7.1-RELEASE on other machine and used that disk here on DP45SG .. i still wasn't able to use installer from CD/PXE ..
 

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Have you tried booting without ACPI? That's a pretty consistent error there.
 
pablo said:
Have you tried set BIOS options "Plag & Play O/S" to "NO"?
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there's actually no such option in this BIOS ..

i was trying different versions of fbsd, seems that i'm able to use i386 7.0-RELEASE .. but as i want to use ZFS, i would definitely wanna go with amd64 ... so far, still no luck :(
 
I have a DQ45 motherboard, which probably has a very similar chipset. I did get 7.1-RELEASE to boot and install on it, but I needed to bump up to 7.1-STABLE to get full use of the board.
 
Brandybuck said:
I have a DQ45 motherboard, which probably has a very similar chipset. I did get 7.1-RELEASE to boot and install on it, but I needed to bump up to 7.1-STABLE to get full use of the board.
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which version - amd64 or i386 ?

i was able to install i386 version (7.1-RELEASE) with ACPI disabled .. now i will try to cvsup to amd64 and see if this helps or not
 
Brandybuck said:
i386. I'm going to wait for 7.2 before I attempt 64bit.
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not that i expected anything else, but cvsup-ing to amd64 ( 7.2-PRERELEASE) didn't work at all .. i'm stuck with the same error: "Could not allocate irq"

this sucks :/ ..
 
nope, I didn't ..

actually, i did RMA it .. as part of my test I tried to disable USB ports (to see if I can avoid those irq conflicts) - i found out very nasty bug - once you disable those ports there's pretty much no way how to enable them again.. there's no PS/2 port, so I got stuck ..
BIOS upgrade/downgrade didn't help, CMOS battery out for 12 hours didn't help, CMOS reset, .. nothing ..
i wasn't the only one on earth who got stuck like this though ;)

so I got rid of it, currently I'm using an older MB (DG33BU)
 
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