Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk

On Dec 27, 2007 4:11 PM, Xin LI <delphij@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Seth Hieronymus wrote:
In testing my Windows desktop with the 7.0 LiveFS disk (
7.0-BETA4-amd64-livefs.iso), I get an instant reboot when the CD is run.
As
far as I can tell, no console messages are printed, so it seems the
error
happens very early in the loading process. Other FreeBSD versions (6.2,
i386 7.0) also exhibit the same behavior. If left alone, the computer
will
just continually reboot.

The specs of the system are:
Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard
AMD Athlon64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz
Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579)
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1
Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card

My guess is that the disk controller is not supported. Should this
cause an
instant reboot with a live filesystem disk? Is there anyway to debug
this
since no console messages are printed?

One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk? This will
be helpful to narrow down the issue...

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij@xxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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Thanks for the response! What you suggested worked -- I removed the SATA
cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0 BETA4
AMD64 LiveFS cd.

It appears that the disk controller is not the problem. It is recognized by
FreeBSD as (hand copied):
atapci0: <Promise PDC20579 SATA150 controller> port
0xd200-0xd27f,0xd300-0xd3ff mem 0xf8236000-0xf8236fff,0xf8200000-0xf821ffff
irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci0

Searching the dmesg, there are no other devices on irq 19.

Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard also
has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is:
atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller>

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Seth
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