Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:08:08 +0400 From: pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> To: Christian Schmidt <schmidt_chr@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot issues with a Dell Inspiron 530 and 8.0 RC1 Message-ID: <a31046fc0910060208w779a4113g1751d74db7d1121c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <309b65830910060054g16a099abxb8e203a46aa9e89c@mail.gmail.com> References: <309b65830910060054g16a099abxb8e203a46aa9e89c@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/10/6 Christian Schmidt <schmidt_chr@gmx.net>: > Hello list, > > I am seeing a strange issue with my Dell Inspiron 530 with 8.0 RC1-p1 > at around 50-75% percent of all boots. It all boils down to GENERIC > throwing the following: > > AP #1 (PHY #1) failed! > panic y/n? [y] panic: bye-bye > cpuid = 0 > > However, this only happens when booting from the hard disk. A boot > from the install CD works perfectly every time. Testing the machine > with 7.2 last night revealed the same issue, so this is not specific > to 8.0 > As an interesting side-note: the odds of a successful boot increase > dramtically when cold-booting. Rebooting from e.g. Linux or Windows > seems to push the failure-rate to around a 100% every time. > > The system itself is almost completely Intel. Some specifications: > Intel 82801 PCI Bridge > Intel G33/G31/P35/P31 PCIe > Intel ICH9 SMBus > I got an advice to try to update BIOS for a similar problem (visible in 6.x). Unfortunately it's not easy in my environment. Could you try that way and report? -- wbr, pluknet
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