Home-built NAS OK with FreeNAS but won't boot with NAS4Free

[Marco38]

Hello all,

I have a home-built NAS (Intel D510MO motherboard + 2 GB DDR-2 + Promise SATA300 TX4 controler) that has been running smoothly under FreeNAS 0.7 for ages, and now that I'm trying to upgrade it by installing a fresh copy of NAS4Free 9.1.0.1.573 embedded on a CompactFlash card, I can't even install the system, because it just won't boot up, and freezes displaying these messages on the console:

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pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pcib5: failed to allocate initial memory window: 0xe100000-0xe01fffff
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
atapci0: <Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller> port 0x1100-0x117f,0x1000-0x10ff
irq 21 at device 0.0 on pci5

I tried to ask Google, but wasn't that lucky. Did I do something wrong, or does this justify a bug report?

Thanks in advance,

[raulfg3]

Installer is pure BSD, developers of Nas4Free can do nothig.

Try to move SATA 300 from actual PCI to other, your error appears like a irq error.

[Marco38]

Installer is pure BSD, developers of Nas4Free can do nothing.

Try to move SATA 300 from actual PCI to other, your error appears like a irq error.

Impossible to move SATA 300 from one PCI slot to another one, as there's only one PCI slot on that motherboard.

The good news is that after several attempts with FreeNAS 0.7.2.8191, it finally successfully booted, as surprisingly as it was failing before, so I was able to install the system on the CF card. Then I tried once again with NAS4Free 9.1.0.1.573 and it was OK, to my big surprise. No explanation, only surprise and satisfaction. My wife then said: "OK, the damn thing works. Don't touch anything anymore, chances are it would fail again. Better come to bed, it's about time." So I have to leave you, folks, at least for now... and I will do the rest of the configuration later. Thank you, raulfg3, for replying.

[armandh]

I have had MOBOs that would only boot from drive connections directly to the board
they would not boot from drives through expansion cards. others would
it was easier to be sure the boot drive connected where the MOBO would boot from

I also had one that was supposed to handle 64 bit instructions
try the 32 bit OS as a test