Re: ICH7 ?

["Kevin L. Kane" <kevin.kane@xxxxxxxxx>]

Im having the same problem as this on a Dell Optiplex GX280 with a SATA HD.

I tried making a iso from preview and that also failed.

-Kevink


On 4/6/06, Terry Tree <terry.tree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>