amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:06:32PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
>This time I was able to login and check libcrypto:
>MD5 (/lib/libcrypto.so.5) = ee943528c8046145b60359f50f45fbf4
>
>And as suggested by Gavin, I rebooted and checked things
>again.
>
>Upon reboot, the error was now different (relocation type changed),
>and the checksum for libcrypto.so.5 changed!
>MD5 (/lib/libcrypto.so.5) = a24993818d2b888df053428b48a18eac
...
>Maybe it's a problem with the disk driver in FreeBSD-7 for
>this chipset? (dmesg attached) ... it seems like reading and
>writing to disk is the problem ... but this only happens
>with FreeBSD-7.0. Any suggestion as to how I can further debug this?
...
>atapci0: <ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 controller> port 0xecb0-0xecb7,0xeca0-0xeca3,0xecb8-0xecbf,0xeca4-0xeca7,0xece0-0xecef mem 0xefdfe000-0xefdfffff irq 6 at device 14.0 on pci3

There are a number of threads in -current discussing the brokenness of
that chipset.  The impression I get is that 7.0-RELEASE will never work
for you but there are some fixes in 7.0 post -RELEASE.  A sample is:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084272.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084075.html

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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