On 2021-01-21 18:31, Gary Mills wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 04:10:40PM -0800, Chris wrote:
Thank you *very* much for the reply.
It's an AMD Athlon II X3 @3Ghz w/*Gb RAM
It's on an AM2+ board -- I know. But still...
Anyway.
I used to have one of those.
The failures I indicated here turned out to be a bad PSU.
I've had PSU failures too.
I've since replaced it, and I get to the color Welcome screen.
I assume that's in the loader, after it's booted the copy of OI
that's on the DVD or USB image.
But, a couple things; the (onboard) Nivdia Gigabit port (nge0)
causes OI all kinds of grief -- loop message regarding ipsec, followed
by dhcpd error(s). Finding that, I simply unplugged it, and shoved
an Atheros WiFi card in it.
I've had bad luck with nge devices too, but never that bad.
Restarted the install, and got No disk
drives found. Well, the BIOS finds and confirms it's in good shape.
Will allow me to boot from it. But not OI. Oh it's sata (II). Anyway;
I replace the drive, and boot the OI install. Same problem -- No
drive found.
That sounds like a missing driver for your disk controller. It will
be included with the full OI kernel, but perhaps not with the loader.
Selecting AHCI mode in the BIOS for the disk controller may fix the
problem. I notice when I run:
$ prtconf -D
on my system, it shows ahci as the disk controller driver.
OK here's a nice picture (screenshot) I was able to capture that
pretty well sums it up.
Driver is NOT the problem.
I think the only way I'm going to be able to install OI on this, is
by plugging my sata drive into a USB adapter, and install it there.
Then after installation. Plug the drive back into the sata port on
the MB. I thought OI had better sata support. It clearly understands
the controller.
Well. They say a Picture paints a thousand words:
https://bsdos.info/OI/Screenshot-2021-01-22-00-12-55.png
Any hints || suggestions GREATLY appreciated.
--Chris
--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX
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