Re: ICH7 ?

["Terry Tree" <terry.tree@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/6/06, David Xu <bsddiy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> ..

I see these messages on my machines too, but my machines boot up fine.
 Most of my machines are intel p4.