From nobody@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 12:38:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id 8D6EC151A8; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:38:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <19990316203840.8D6EC151A8@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:38:40 -0800 (PST) From: cfr@pobox.com Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: RTC BIOS diagnostic error on install X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 10626 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: RTC BIOS diagnostic error on install >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 16 12:40:00 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: Mon Mar 12 18:48:15 PST 2001 >Last-Modified: Tue Mar 13 01:00:01 PST 2001 >Originator: Charles F. Randall >Release: 3.1R >Organization: >Environment: >Description: When trying to install FreeBSD R3.1 from I get the following message after loading the kern and mfs root floppies. RTC BIOS diagnostic error ff changing root device to fd0c rootfs is 2880 Kbyte compiled in MFS At that point the installation hangs. This machine ran 2.2.8 without problem. I just booted with an R2.2.8 boot floopy and got the /stand/sysinstall main menu without problem. Suggestions? >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: cfr@pobox.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: i386/10626: RTC BIOS diagnostic error on install Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:38:40 -0800 (PST) >Number: 10626 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: RTC BIOS diagnostic error on install >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 16 12:40:00 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Charles F. Randall >Release: 3.1R >Organization: >Environment: >Description: When trying to install FreeBSD R3.1 from I get the following message after loading the kern and mfs root floppies. RTC BIOS diagnostic error ff changing root device to fd0c rootfs is 2880 Kbyte compiled in MFS At that point the installation hangs. This machine ran 2.2.8 without problem. I just booted with an R2.2.8 boot floopy and got the /stand/sysinstall main menu without problem. Suggestions? >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message From: Charles Randall To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: cfr@pobox.com, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, faq@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/10626: RTC BIOS diagnostic error on install Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:49:49 -0700 I was finally able to boot the install disks from floppy and proceed with the installation by disabling the parallel port controller ppc0 in the visual kernel configuration. I tried disabling all other unused devices except ppc0 (keeping only fdc0, wdc0, wdc1, ppc0, atkbd0, and sc0 -- I also have the PCI-based fxp0 but you can't disable that without removing the card) and the problem still existed (even though the visual kernel configuration stated there were no conflicts). When I disabled ppc0 it worked. I'm able to boot the system by disabling _only_ ppc0. After installing, I need to disable ppc0 automatically otherwise the boot would hang with the same error as originally described (except it changed to the boot disk instead of fd0). To automatically disable ppc0, I did the following (mostly just documenting this in case someone else runs into the same problem): 1. At the boot prompt, enter "boot -c". 2. At the "config>" prompt, enter "visual" to enter the visual kernel configuration editor. 3. Disable ppc0. 4. Once the system has booted, log in as root. 5. Verify that /kernel.config contains the following lines, di ppc0 q 6. Move /kernel.config to /boot/kernel.conf % mv /kernel.config /boot/kernel.conf 7. Create /boot/loader.rc and add the following lines verbatim. load /kernel load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf autoboot 8. Then reboot. I still don't know that the original problem was (and now I can't use the parallel port). Can this information be added to the FAQ, handbook, or ERRATA.TXT file? Steps 6 and 7 are in the ERRATA.TXT file on the FTP site, but there's no mention of a problem with ppc0. Is there some known problem with ppc0? I can't seem to find a hardware conflict. Charles State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: nbm State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 14:33:45 PDT 2000 State-Changed-Why: Are you able to tell us if this behaviour continued in later releases? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10626 State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed State-Changed-By: des State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 12 18:48:15 PST 2001 State-Changed-Why: Feedback timeout. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10626 From: Charles Randall To: "'freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org'" Cc: Subject: Re: i386/10626: RTC BIOS diagnostic error on install Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:58:09 -0700 I've lost track of which machine I had this problem on. However, I'd guess that this was resolved in subsequent releases because I haven't seen a similar problem since then. -Charles >Unformatted: