Re: ICH7 ?

[David Xu <bsddiy@xxxxxxx>]

Andreas Hauser wrote:

> bsddiy wrote @ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:27:02 +0800:
>> Chuck Tuffli wrote:
>> 
>> > On 4/4/06, David Xu <bsddiy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Is there any dragonflybsd .iso I can install on intel ICH7
>> >> south bridge based machine ?
>> > 
>> > I was able to install 1.4 on a ECS PF5 Extreme (Intel 945 based w/
>> > ICH7). Using a SATA-II drive didn't work (NCQ maybe?), but I was able
>> > to install the OS without any other trouble on a regular IDE drive.
>> > Hope that helps.
>> > 
>> > ---chuck
>> 
>> Yes, it is Intel 945, and dual-core Pentium-D, the
>> HDD is SATA disk, and supports NCQ, is this the problem ?
> 
> NCQ on itself shouldn't matter.
> What is the problem exactly? Maybe you can post the dmesg?
> Or did the iso fail to boot at all?
> 
> The only problem i had with SATA was that the boot0 couldn't
> find the SATA drives so i had to use an ATA drive for the loader
> but that was with another controller, not ICH7.
> 
> 

It is the kernel's problem, it did not find any disk/disc controller,
dmesg looks like this:
Mounting root from: cd9660:cd0c
no such device 'cd'
setrootbyname failed
is_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Root mount failed: 6
Mount root from cd9660:acd0c
no such device 'acd'
setrootbyname failed
iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Root mount failed: 6
Mounting root from cd9660:cd1c
no such device 'cd'
setrootbyname failed
iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
. ..