Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk

[Xin LI]

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Seth Hieronymus wrote:
> In testing my Windows desktop with the 7.0 LiveFS disk (
> 7.0-BETA4-amd64-livefs.iso), I get an instant reboot when the CD is run.  As
> far as I can tell, no console messages are printed, so it seems the error
> happens very early in the loading process.  Other FreeBSD versions (6.2,
> i386 7.0) also exhibit the same behavior.  If left alone, the computer will
> just continually reboot.
> 
> The specs of the system are:
> Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard
> AMD Athlon64 3800+  Newcastle 2.4GHz
> Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579)
> 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1
> Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card
> 
> My guess is that the disk controller is not supported.  Should this cause an
> instant reboot with a live filesystem disk?  Is there anyway to debug this
> since no console messages are printed?

One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk?  This will
be helpful to narrow down the issue...

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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