Freebsd custom installation cd

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:47:06AM +0300, yusuf özbilgin wrote:
> ata8-master --> ata8 --> atapci1
> and atapci1 is Intel Ahci Controller.
> I used GENERIC conf file and recompile the kernel but the problem is still exist. (I am using freebsd7)

Before you rebuilt the kernel, did you update /usr/src using csup or
cvsup?  If so, then it sounds like there's a bug somewhere in the ata(4)
code which is causing this problem.

The code was recently modified (3 days ago), which sounds very
suspicious.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.c
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h

I've CC'd the responsible parties.  They should be able to work with you
to find out what the problem is.

> Then I added IDE disk to the system The system didnt detect the ide disk.
> 
> This mainboard is G33 chipset Intel mainboard (BOXDG33FBC) (first mail was wrong)

I can't explain this one.

> I try to mount floppy to save the dmesg output while installation but It also gave the error 
> g_vfs_done(): fd0[read(offset=0, length=8192)] error = 6

There have been recent reports of the floppy disk driver in FreeBSD not
working.

> I thougt that may be floopy or diskette error I tried to mount usb mass storage then 
> It gave the "umass0 BBB reset failed timeout" error and stoped the booting.

This is a separate problem and is known.  AFAIK there is no fix, other
than to try 8.0-CURRENT which contains a new USB stack.

> I tried different G33 chipset Intel mainboard (BOXDG33FBC) but problem continued.
> 
> I tried with freebsd 6.2 cd it also didnt detect the disk.
> 
> Freebsd7 installation cd is not giving any error. 

Can you please provide exact FreeBSD versions and not just generic
strings?  We need to know if you're talking about FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE,
6.2-STABLE, 7.0-RELEASE, 7.0-STABLE, 7.1-BETA, etc...

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