Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:44:18 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: de-boysson.charles-henri@epita.fr Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2 Beta unable to boot Message-ID: <3FD23FA2.7030303@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20031206203312.GA92753@ceache.net> References: <20031206203312.GA92753@ceache.net>
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de-boysson.charles-henri@epita.fr wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried the miniinst 5.2-BETA (kernel dated 11/25/03) on my > computer but it couldn't even boot. My mother board is a A7N8X Delux with > 1Gb of main memory. It uses a NForce2 chip. The graphic card is _not_ > embeded in the chip : I use an external GF2MX. The BIOS finds it on IRQ 11. > I wrote down by hand the last lines of the panic: > > agp0: <NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Controler> mem 0xa0000000 - 0xbfffffff at dev 0.0 on pci0 > panic: pmap_mapdev: couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory > cpuid 0; > > And then to debugger :(. > > I tried a 'where' command. Here are the latest functions called : > device_probe_and_attach > root_bus_configure > configure > mi_startup > begin > > The panic also happens with the 12/03/03 ans 12/02/03 mini isos. > The same MB boots 4.9-Stable correctly. > > I don't have a trace or boot -v log as I don't boot from serial. If it is > needed, I'm sure I can look into dusty drowers or ask a friend and get > a serial cable to do that. > > I don't really know how to get more informations with a panic that early > in the boot process, but I'll gladly follow instructions. > The onboard nForce2 function is trying to allocate a 512MB AGP window. Can you disable the function in the BIOS, or at least tell it to reduce the AGP window to something much smaller? Scott
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