📄 installation-alpha.txt
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4.3.6. I booted the install floppy on my IBM ThinkPad (tm) laptop, and the
keyboard is all messed up.
4.3.7. When I try to boot the install floppy, I see the following message
and nothing seems to be happening. I cannot enter anything from the
keyboard either.
4.3.8. I have a Matsushita/Panasonic CR-522, a Matsushita/Panasonic CR-523
or a TEAC CD55a drive, but it is not recognized even when the correct I/O
port is set.
4.3.9. I'm trying to install from a tape drive but all I get is something
like this on the screen:
4.3.10. I've installed FreeBSD onto my system, but it hangs when booting
from the hard drive with the message:
4.3.11. My system can not find my Intel EtherExpress 16 card.
4.3.12. When installing on an EISA HP Netserver, my on-board AIC-7xxx SCSI
controller isn't detected.
4.3.13. I have a Panasonic AL-N1 or Rios Chandler Pentium machine and I
find that the system hangs before ever getting into the installation now.
4.3.14. I have this CMD640 IDE controller that is said to be broken.
4.3.15. On a Compaq Aero notebook, I get the message ``No floppy devices
found! Please check ...'' when trying to install from floppy.
4.3.16. When I go to boot my Intel AL440LX (``Atlanta'') -based system
from the hard disk the first time, it stops with a Read Error message.
4.3.17. When installing on an Dell Poweredge XE, Dell proprietary RAID
controller DSA (Dell SCSI Array) isn't recognized.
4.3.18. My Ethernet adapter is detected as an AMD PCnet-FAST (or similar)
but it doesn't work. (Eg. onboard Ethernet on IBM Netfinity 5xxx or 7xxx)
4.3.19. I have an IBM EtherJet PCI card, it is detected by the fxp(4)
driver correctly, but the lights on the card don't come on and it doesn't
connect to the network.
4.3.20. When I configure the network during installation on an IBM
Netfinity 3500, the system freezes.
4.3.21. When I install onto a drive managed by a Mylex PCI RAID
controller, the system fails to boot (eg. with a read error message).
4.3.1. The mcd(4) driver keeps thinking that it has found a device and
this stops my Intel EtherExpress card from working.
Use the UserConfig utility (see HARDWARE.TXT) and disable the probing of
the mcd0 and mcd1 devices. Generally speaking, you should only leave the
devices that you will be using enabled in your kernel.
4.3.2. FreeBSD claims to support the 3Com PCMCIA card, but my card isn't
recognized when it's plugged into my laptop.
There are a couple of possible problems. First of all, FreeBSD does not
support multi-function cards, so if you have a combo Ethernet/modem card
(such as the 3C562), it won't work. The default driver for the 3C589 card
was written just like all of the other drivers in FreeBSD, and depend on
the card's own configuration data stored in NVRAM to work. You must
correctly configure FreeBSD's driver to match the IRQ, port, and IOMEM
stored in NVRAM.
Unfortunately, the only program capable of reading them is the 3COM
supplied DOS program. This program must be run on a absolutely clean
system (no other drivers must be running), and the program will whine
about CARD-Services not being found, but it will continue. This is
necessary to read the NVRAM values. You want to know the IRQ, port, and
IOMEM values (the latter is called the CIS tuple by 3COM). The first two
can be set in the program, the third is un-settable, and can only be read.
Once you have these values, set them in UserConfig and your card will be
recognized.
4.3.3. FreeBSD finds my PCMCIA network card, but no packets appear to be
sent even though it claims to be working.
Many PCMCIA cards have the ability to use either the 10-Base2 (BNC) or
10-BaseT connectors for connecting to the network. The driver is unable to
``auto-select'' the correct connector, so you must tell it which connector
to use. In order to switch between the two connectors, the link flags must
be set. Depending on the model of the card, -link0 link1 or -link0 -link1
will choose the correct network connector. You can set these in
sysinstall(8) by using the Extra options to ifconfig: field in the network
setup screen.
4.3.4. The system finds my ed(4) network card, but I keep getting device
timeout errors.
Your card is probably on a different IRQ from what is specified in the
kernel configuration. The ed driver does not use the `soft' configuration
by default (values entered using EZSETUP in DOS), but it will use the
software configuration if you specify ? in the IRQ field of your kernel
config file.
Either move the jumper on the card to a hard configuration setting
(altering the kernel settings if necessary), or specify the IRQ as -1 in
UserConfig or ? in your kernel config file. This will tell the kernel to
use the soft configuration.
Another possibility is that your card is at IRQ 9, which is shared by IRQ
2 and frequently a cause of problems (especially when you have a VGA card
using IRQ 2!). You should not use IRQ 2 or 9 if at all possible.
4.3.5. I have a Matsushita/Panasonic drive but it isn't recognized by the
system.
Make certain that the I/O port that the matcd(4) driver is set to is
correct for the host interface card you have. (Some SoundBlaster DOS
drivers report a hardware I/O port address for the CD-ROM interface that
is 0x10 lower than it really is.)
If you are unable to determine the settings for the card by examining the
board or documentation, you can use UserConfig to change the 'port'
address (I/O port) to -1 and start the system. This setting causes the
driver to look at a number of I/O ports that various manufacturers use for
their Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative CD-ROM interfaces. Once the driver
locates the address, you should run UserConfig again and specify the
correct address. Leaving the 'port' parameter set to -1 increases the
amount of time that it takes the system to boot, and this could interfere
with other devices.
The double-speed Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 are the only drives that are
supported.
4.3.6. I booted the install floppy on my IBM ThinkPad (tm) laptop, and the
keyboard is all messed up.
Older IBM laptops use a non-standard keyboard controller, so you must tell
the keyboard driver (atkbd0) to go into a special mode which works on the
ThinkPads. Change the atkbd0 'Flags' to 0x4 in UserConfig and it should
work fine. (Look in the Input Menu for 'Keyboard'.)
4.3.7. When I try to boot the install floppy, I see the following message
and nothing seems to be happening. I cannot enter anything from the
keyboard either.
Keyboard: no
Due to lack of space, full support for old XT/AT (84-key) keyboards is no
longer available in the bootblocks. Some notebook computers may also have
this type of keyboard. If you are still using this kind of hardware, you
will see the above message appears when you boot from the CD-ROM or an
install floppy.
As soon as you see this message, hit the space bar, and you will see the
prompt:
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: x:xx(x,x)/boot/loader
boot:
Then enter -Dh, and things should proceed normally.
4.3.8. I have a Matsushita/Panasonic CR-522, a Matsushita/Panasonic CR-523
or a TEAC CD55a drive, but it is not recognized even when the correct I/O
port is set.
These CD-ROM drives are currently not supported by FreeBSD. The command
sets for these drives are not compatible with the double-speed CR-562 and
CR-563 drives.
The single-speed CR-522 and CR-523 drives can be identified by their use
of a CD-caddy.
4.3.9. I'm trying to install from a tape drive but all I get is something
like this on the screen:
sa0(aha0:1:0) NOT READY csi 40,0,0,0
There's a limitation in the current sysinstall(8) that the tape must be in
the drive while sysinstall(8) is started or it won't be detected. Try
again with the tape in the drive the whole time.
4.3.10. I've installed FreeBSD onto my system, but it hangs when booting
from the hard drive with the message:
Changing root to /dev/da0a
his problem may occur in a system with a 3com 3c509 Ethernet adapter. The
ep(4) device driver appears to be sensitive to probes for other devices
that also use address 0x300. Boot your FreeBSD system by power cycling the
machine (turn off and on). At the Boot: prompt specify the -c. This will
invoke UserConfig (see Section 4.1 above). Use the disable command to
disable the device probes for all devices at address 0x300 except the ep0
driver. On exit, your machine should successfully boot FreeBSD.
4.3.11. My system can not find my Intel EtherExpress 16 card.
You must set your Intel EtherExpress 16 card to be memory mapped at
address 0xD0000, and set the amount of mapped memory to 32K using the
Intel supplied softset.exe program.
4.3.12. When installing on an EISA HP Netserver, my on-board AIC-7xxx SCSI
controller isn't detected.
This is a known problem, and will hopefully be fixed in the future. In
order to get your system installed at all, boot with the -c option into
UserConfig, but don't use the pretty visual mode but the plain old CLI
mode. Type:
eisa 12
quit
at the prompt. (Instead of `quit', you might also type `visual', and
continue the rest of the configuration session in visual mode.) While it's
recommended to compile a custom kernel, dset now also understands to save
this value.
Refer to the FAQ topic 3.16 for an explanation of the problem, and for how
to continue. Remember that you can find the FAQ on your local system in
/usr/share/doc/FAQ, provided you have installed the `doc' distribution.
4.3.13. I have a Panasonic AL-N1 or Rios Chandler Pentium machine and I
find that the system hangs before ever getting into the installation now.
Your machine doesn't like the new i586_copyout and i586_copyin code for
some reason. To disable this, boot the installation boot floppy and when
it comes to the very first menu (the choice to drop into kernel UserConfig
mode or not) choose the command-line interface (``expert mode'') version
and type the following at it:
flags npx0 1
Then proceed normally to boot. This will be saved into your kernel, so you
only need to do it once.
4.3.14. I have this CMD640 IDE controller that is said to be broken.
Yes, it is. FreeBSD does not support this controller except through the
legacy wdc driver.
4.3.15. On a Compaq Aero notebook, I get the message ``No floppy devices
found! Please check ...'' when trying to install from floppy.
With Compaq being always a little different from other systems, they do
not announce their floppy drive in the CMOS RAM of an Aero notebook.
Therefore, the floppy disk driver assumes there is no drive configured. Go
to the UserConfig screen, and set the Flags value of the fdc0 device to
0x1. This pretends the existence of the first floppy drive (as a 1.44 MB
drive) to the driver without asking the CMOS at all.
4.3.16. When I go to boot my Intel AL440LX (``Atlanta'') -based system
from the hard disk the first time, it stops with a Read Error message.
There appears to be a bug in the BIOS on at least some of these boards,
this bug results in the FreeBSD bootloader thinking that it is booting
from a floppy disk. This is only a problem if you are not using the
BootEasy boot manager. Slice the disk in ``compatible''mode and install
BootEasy during the FreeBSD installation to avoid the bug, or upgrade the
BIOS (see Intel's web site for details).
4.3.17. When installing on an Dell Poweredge XE, Dell proprietary RAID
controller DSA (Dell SCSI Array) isn't recognized.
Configure the DSA to use AHA-1540 emulation using EISA configuration
utility. After that FreeBSD detects the DSA as an Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI
controller, with irq 11 and port 340. Under emulation mode system will use
DSA RAID disks, but you cannot use DSA-specific features such as watching
RAID health.
4.3.18. My Ethernet adapter is detected as an AMD PCnet-FAST (or similar)
but it doesn't work. (Eg. onboard Ethernet on IBM Netfinity 5xxx or 7xxx)
The lnc(4) driver is currently faulty, and will often not work correctly
with the PCnet-FAST and PCnet-FAST+. You need to install a different
Ethernet adapter.
4.3.19. I have an IBM EtherJet PCI card, it is detected by the fxp(4)
driver correctly, but the lights on the card don't come on and it doesn't
connect to the network.
We don't understand why this happens. Neither do IBM (we asked them). The
card is a standard Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 with an IBM label on it, and
these cards normally work just fine. You may see these symptoms only in
some IBM Netfinity servers. The only solution is to install a different
Ethernet adapter.
4.3.20. When I configure the network during installation on an IBM
Netfinity 3500, the system freezes.
There is a problem with the onboard Ethernet in the Netfinity 3500 which
we have not been able to identify at this time. It may be related to the
SMP features of the system being misconfigured. You will have to install
another Ethernet adapter and avoid attempting to configure the onboard
adapter at any time.
4.3.21. When I install onto a drive managed by a Mylex PCI RAID
controller, the system fails to boot (eg. with a read error message).
There is a bug in the Mylex driver which results in it ignoring the
``8GB'' geometry mode setting in the BIOS. Use the 2GB mode instead.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This file, and other release-related documents, can be downloaded from
ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/.
For questions about FreeBSD, read the documentation before contacting
<questions@FreeBSD.org>.
All users of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT should subscribe to the <current@FreeBSD.org>
mailing list.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.
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