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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-08 04:52:04 +0000
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Try to make this document reflect reality better:
o All of the Q&A entries in this section were i386-specific, so make these conditional on building for that platform. If non-i386-platforms need similar Q&A lists, they can add their own to this file. o Coalesce the two Q&A sections into one. o Correct some device names (wd(4) devices have not existed for quite some time). o Get rid of a number of obsolete entries (suggested by jhb).
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@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
</sect2>
<sect2>
- <title>Common Installation Problems, Q&amp;A</title>
+ <title>Common Installation Problems for &arch.print; Architecture Users</title>
- <qandaset>
+ <qandaset arch="i386">
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>I go to boot from the hard disk for the first time
@@ -63,14 +63,14 @@
each configured as the master on their respective IDE
busses, and wish to boot &os; from the second disk. The
BIOS sees these as disk 0 and disk 1, while &os; sees
- them as <devicename>wd0</devicename> and
- <devicename>wd2</devicename>.</para>
+ them as <devicename>ad0</devicename> and
+ <devicename>ad2</devicename>.</para>
<para>&os; is on BIOS disk 1, of type
- <literal>wd</literal> and the &os; disk number is 2, so
+ <literal>ad</literal> and the &os; disk number is 2, so
you would say:</para>
- <screen><userinput>1:wd(2,a)kernel</userinput></screen>
+ <screen><userinput>1:ad(2,a)kernel</userinput></screen>
<para>Note that if you have a slave on the primary bus, the
above is not necessary (and is effectively wrong).</para>
@@ -134,16 +134,6 @@
</blockquote>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
- </qandaset>
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>Known Hardware Problems, Q&amp;A</title>
-
- <note>
- <para>Please send hardware tips for this section to &a.jkh;.</para>
- </note>
-
- <qandaset>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>The &man.mcd.4; driver keeps thinking that it has
@@ -161,54 +151,6 @@
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
- <para>&os; claims to support the 3Com PCMCIA card, but my
- card isn't recognized when it's plugged into my
- laptop.</para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>There are a couple of possible problems. First of
- all, &os; does not support multi-function cards, so if
- you have a combo Ethernet/modem card (such as the 3C562), it
- won't work. The default driver for the 3C589 card was
- written just like all of the other drivers in &os;, and
- depend on the card's own configuration data stored in NVRAM
- to work. You must correctly configure &os;'s driver to
- match the IRQ, port, and IOMEM stored in NVRAM.</para>
-
- <para>Unfortunately, the only program capable of reading
- them is the 3COM supplied DOS program. This program must be
- run on a absolutely clean system (no other drivers must be
- running), and the program will whine about CARD-Services not
- being found, but it will continue. This is necessary to
- read the NVRAM values. You want to know the IRQ, port, and
- IOMEM values (the latter is called the CIS tuple by 3COM).
- The first two can be set in the program, the third is
- un-settable, and can only be read. Once you have these
- values, set them in UserConfig and your card will be
- recognized.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>&os; finds my PCMCIA network card, but no packets
- appear to be sent even though it claims to be working.</para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>Many PCMCIA cards have the ability to use either the
- 10-Base2 (BNC) or 10-BaseT connectors for connecting to the
- network. The driver is unable to <quote>auto-select</quote>
- the correct connector, so you must tell it which connector
- to use. In order to switch between the two connectors, the
- link flags must be set. Depending on the model of the card,
- <option>-link0 link1</option> or <option>-link0
- -link1</option> will choose the correct network connector.
- You can set these in &man.sysinstall.8; by using the
- <literal>Extra options to ifconfig:</literal> field in the
- network setup screen.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
<para>The system finds my &man.ed.4; network card, but I
keep getting device timeout errors.</para>
</question>
@@ -247,84 +189,6 @@
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
- <para>When I try to boot the install floppy, I see the
- following message and nothing seems to be happening. I
- cannot enter anything from the keyboard either.</para>
-
- <screen>Keyboard: no</screen>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>Due to lack of space, full support for old XT/AT
- (84-key) keyboards is no longer available in the bootblocks.
- Some notebook computers may also have this type of keyboard.
- If you are still using this kind of hardware, you will see
- the above message appears when you boot from the CD-ROM or
- an install floppy.</para>
-
- <para>As soon as you see this message, hit the space bar,
- and you will see the prompt:</para>
-
-<screen>>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
-Default: x:xx(x,x)/boot/loader
-boot:</screen>
-
- <para>Then enter <userinput>-Dh</userinput>, and things
- should proceed normally.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>I have a Matsushita/Panasonic CR-522, a
- Matsushita/Panasonic CR-523 or a TEAC CD55a drive, but it is
- not recognized even when the correct I/O port is set.</para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>These CD-ROM drives are currently not supported by
- &os;. The command sets for these drives are not compatible
- with the double-speed CR-562 and CR-563 drives.</para>
-
- <para>The single-speed CR-522 and CR-523 drives can be
- identified by their use of a CD-caddy. </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>I'm trying to install from a tape drive but all I get
- is something like this on the screen:</para>
-
- <screen>sa0(aha0:1:0) NOT READY csi 40,0,0,0</screen>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>There's a limitation in the current &man.sysinstall.8;
- that the tape <emphasis>must</emphasis> be in the drive
- while &man.sysinstall.8; is started or it won't be detected.
- Try again with the tape in the drive the whole time.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>I've installed &os; onto my system, but it hangs
- when booting from the hard drive with the message:</para>
-
- <screen>Changing root to /dev/da0a</screen>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>his problem may occur in a system with a 3com 3c509
- Ethernet adapter. The &man.ep.4; device driver appears to
- be sensitive to probes for other devices that also use
- address 0x300. Boot your &os; system by power cycling
- the machine (turn off and on). At the
- <literal>Boot:</literal> prompt specify the
- <option>-c</option>. This will invoke UserConfig (see
- <xref linkend="repairing"> above).
- Use the <literal>disable</literal>
- command to disable the device probes for all devices at
- address 0x300 except the ep0 driver. On exit, your machine
- should successfully boot &os;.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
<para>My system can not find my Intel EtherExpress 16 card.</para>
</question>
<answer>
@@ -389,8 +253,7 @@ boot:</screen>
broken.</para>
</question>
<answer>
- <para>Yes, it is. &os; does not support this controller
- except through the legacy wdc driver.</para>
+ <para>&os; does not support this controller.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
@@ -412,24 +275,6 @@ boot:</screen>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
- <para>When I go to boot my Intel AL440LX
- (<quote>Atlanta</quote>) -based system from the hard disk the
- first time, it stops with a <literal>Read Error</literal>
- message.</para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>There appears to be a bug in the BIOS on at least some
- of these boards, this bug results in the &os; bootloader
- thinking that it is booting from a floppy disk. This is
- only a problem if you are not using the BootEasy boot
- manager. Slice the disk in <quote>compatible</quote>mode
- and install BootEasy during the &os; installation to
- avoid the bug, or upgrade the BIOS (see Intel's web site for
- details).</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
<para>When installing on an Dell Poweredge XE, Dell
proprietary RAID controller DSA (Dell SCSI Array) isn't
recognized.</para>
@@ -445,19 +290,6 @@ boot:</screen>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
- <para>My Ethernet adapter is detected as an AMD PCnet-FAST
- (or similar) but it doesn't work. (Eg. onboard Ethernet on
- IBM Netfinity 5xxx or 7xxx)</para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>The &man.lnc.4; driver is currently faulty, and will
- often not work correctly with the PCnet-FAST and
- PCnet-FAST+. You need to install a different Ethernet
- adapter.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
<para>I have an IBM EtherJet PCI card, it is detected by the
&man.fxp.4; driver correctly, but the lights on the card don't
come on and it doesn't connect to the network.</para>
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