Re: BTX loader crash on AM2 Asus M2N32 WS mainboard

Remko Lodder wrote:
Andre Oppermann wrote:
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
Andre Oppermann wrote:
The BTX loader crashes on a brand new AM2 Asus M2N32 WS
Professional mainboard with nForce790 SLI chipset. The CPU is AMD
Hm.. I think it's nForce 590.
Indeed.

Athlon 64 X2 4800+. The system has got an Areca ARC-1220 8-port
PCI-E SATA2 RAID controller, a Intel PCI-X Pro/1000MT NIC and an
ATI RV370 based graphics card (Asus EAX1050&TD/256M, PCI-E). RAM is
upped to 8GB in 4 times 2GB of Kingston KVR667D2N5/2G (DDR2-667,
CL5).

Any suggestions and help appreciated.
Ok. I have the same motherboard and i think your CD drive connected
to the integrated Marvell 88SE6141 controller's port.
Yes, the CDROM was connected to the Marvell based PATA port.

It's not supported by the our ATA driver yet. Try to reconnect your
CD drive to the NVIDIA controller's port.
That should not make a difference as the kernel isn't yet loaded.
It's all within the loader operating through BIOS calls (?).
It looks like the Marvell ATA BIOS upsets the loader when booting
from one its drives.

When reconnecting the CDROM to the nForce based PATA port the loader
doesn't crash anymore and the kernel begins to boot until this:

atapci0: <nVidia nForce MCP55 UDMA133 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177, 0x376,0xf400-0xf40f at device 12.0 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
...
acd0: DVDR <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-103/2.00> at ata0-master PIO4
...
acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x06
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install.
acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x06

then it just hangs (not hard though)... Have tried it with two
different CDROM drivers from different makers with identical results
(the other drive is a plain Toshiba DVDROM). Image is FreeBSD 7.0BETA3
AMD64 burned to a CD-R. Exactly the same problem with BETA3 i386.
FreeBSD 6.2R i386 boots into the installer successfully.


I have to admit that on the Other Operating System out there (and it's
not Linux ;-)) I have a problem with the ATA controller as well, when I
play a DVD on the device, it will stop after using it 10 minutes and I
have the same motherboard as you have.

I'll have a look what happends when I try the install CD for 7.x in both
a SATA port as the ATA port so that we can ruleout what happends.

Cheers
remko


I tried both the i386 as the AMD64 installation CD, on my workstation
and I can get in the installation screen without any problems at all..

From what I recall from the BIOS settings I dont have the SATA ports
enabled on the Marvell chip fwiw.

Any other suggestions which I can get to see whether I have the same
problem as you have?

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