Installation fails (6.1 and 7.0)

Nuno Henriques nh at netcabo.pt
Fri Jan 5 20:32:21 UTC 2007


Nuno Henriques wrote:
> 
>  > CPU:
>  > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ AM2
>  >
>  > MOBO:
>  > ASUS M2N32-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 0603 - 06/27/2006
>  >
>  > RAM:
>  > 2GB GSKILL DDR2 800 PC2 6400
>  >
>  > STORAGE:
>  > Tekram DC-390U3W Ultra 160 SCSI Host Adapter
>  > Seagate Cheetah ST318452LW Ultra160 SCSI
>  > WD Raptor WD740GD 74 GB SATA
>  >
>  >
>  > I've tried to install both 6.1 and 7.0, with no success.
>  >
>  > Installation Method #1
>  > SCSI disabled and SATA enabled, hangs after "trying to mount root 
> from ufs:/dev/md0".
>  >
>  > Installation Method #2
>  > SCSI and SATA enabled, dies with "panic: sym: VTOBUS FAILED!" after 
> finding the sym0 controller.
>  >
>  > Is FreeBSD support being planned for this chipset (NVIDIA nForce 590 
> SLI) any time soon? Is there any eta on when it might be supported?
> 

7.0-CURRENT
Upgraded my motherboard bios and SCSI controller to the newest ones, and 
now dmesg outputs this:

panic: sym: VTOBUS FAILED
cpuid=0
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 0 tid 0]
stopped at kdb_enter+0x2f: nop



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