Re: 5.2.1 Unbootable on my Hardware

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet (andy_at_siliconlandmark.com)
Date: 03/07/04

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    Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:52:15 -0500 (EST)
    To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>
    
    

    On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

    > Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Doug White wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Nick Nelson wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > Hi folks,
    > > > >
    > > > > I've recently tried to install 5.2.1 on a new system of mine, basically
    > > > > it's an AMD 3000XP, Radeon9800 Pro, Corsair XMS RAM, Lanparty Ultra II
    > > > > (http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1524)
    > > > > with a SerialATA (Marvell 88i8030 chip), I have one SerialATA drive and
    > > > > one IDE drive.
    > > >
    > > > The Marvell chip is the SATA bridge, not the ATA controller. Its probably
    > > > the standard built-in nForce 2 ATA controller.
    > > >
    > > > > I've tried booting off both the SATA drive and the IDE drive, each time
    > > > > it gets to:
    > > > >
    > > > > ---
    > > > >
    > > > > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
    > > > > lo0: bpf attached
    > > > >
    > > > > ---
    > > > >
    > > > > and stops..I ran it with logging to get that much information. I've
    > > > > unplugged the SerialATA, which I thought would resolve it, but didn't.
    > > > > Any ideas?
    > > >
    > > > Hm ... try booting without ACPI, and if that doesn't work, try safe mode.
    > > > Looks like the controller is locking up or something...
    > >
    > > This hang could be ULE-related.
    > >
    > > I'm saying this because it's the exact same thing that I see when I try a
    > > ULE kernel on my Dual Athlon 2000+ MP running on a Asus A7M266-D using
    > > regular ATA133 disks. Luckily, it's been tracking current since before
    > > the switchover, so I run a custom generic with 4BSD in it and everything
    > > works fine.
    > >
    > > I wish I could offer more debugging information such a verbose boot or a
    > > ddb ps when it hangs but I'm swamped with work from my job and cannot
    > > seem to find the time to debug such problems.
    >
    > Are you seeing it lock up when /sbin/init executes /etc/rc? When that would
    > normally start doing the fsck -p output, I see nothing, and I can
    > Ctrl-Alt-Esc to DDB and see the processes that should be there, but they
    > just don't do anything. If I could someone encode the dumpdev in the kernel
    > (hint, hint) I could panic it there and get something more useful to go by.
    >
    > This only happens when I try to use SCHED_ULE. I've always used SCHED_4BSD
    > (and indeed, am still doing so now). This is my normal boot output:

    Last time I checked, I didn't get that far. This was a kernel from the the
    25 of February. I guess I could give it another whirl sometime.

    Regards,
    Andy

    > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
    > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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