FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

[Rick C. Petty]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:03:15PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote:
> line in a bsd system. i had the problem where it would only boot 2/3 of the
> way into the bios once before when i used debian, it was because debian was

What do you mean by 2/3 of the way into the BIOS?  Are you saying it only
completes 2/3 of the POST?  If so, it's not even getting to the point where
it boots the CD.  Or are you talking about 2/3 of the way through the
kernel probes?  If so, that's a problem I've seen a lot with Dells.  In
fact on a newly-purchased Dell 755, I couldn't get halfway through the POST
about 75% of the time.  Clearing the CMOS/RTC helped, and still about half
of the time I boot into the FreeBSD kernel (7-STABLE) it would hang for no
reason.  Hitting the power button triggered an ACPI event to properly
shutdown and restart, but it's damn annoying.

> the bios just to make sure that nothing is wrong with them. And also i tried
> both the 7.0-RELEASE and 7-STABLE livefs disks and both of them cannot mount
> the livefs image.

What do you mean by mointing the livefs image?  Are you booting a different
CD?  It was recommended that you burn the livefs CD and then boot *it*.
That should also take care of the mounting.

-- Rick C. Petty