From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 01:29:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE9816A4CE for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 302F943D55 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 67274 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Feb 2004 09:28:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 2 Feb 2004 09:28:57 -0000 Message-ID: <401E17D2.90609@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 02:26:42 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Panagiotis Astithas References: <20040125111743.GA564@bsd> <401672F7.8080404@noc.ntua.gr> <4018F64A.2090906@noc.ntua.gr> <40196D90.5020604@compgeek.com> <401E144C.3000706@noc.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <401E144C.3000706@noc.ntua.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: noackjr@compgeek.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System still hangs with "ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:29:00 -0000 Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Jon Noack wrote: > >> On 1/29/2004 6:02 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: >> >>> I found out that booting with "Safe mode" (I knew there should be >>> some use for it :-)) allows me to complete the process and get to >>> sysinstall, in both 5.2-RELEASE & the -current snapshot from 24/1. >>> But I tried to do the same from the loader prompt, to no avail. I >>> used the following and then "boot" or "boot -v" but every attempt >>> resulted in the traditional freeze. >>> >>> unset acpi_load >>> set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 >>> set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1 >>> set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 >>> set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 >>> set hw.ata.wc=0 >>> set hw.eisa_slots=0 >>> >>> From what I can tell from the beastie.4th file, that is all that >>> should be needed. Am I missing something? >> >> >> >> You missed disabling apic: >> set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 > > > Bingo! > But I still can't see how it is being set via the loader's "Safe mode" > option. Granted, my forth skills are lacking, but an inquiring mind > needs to know :-) > > Thanks, Look for this segment in beastie.4th: dup bootsafekey @ = if s" arch-i386" environment? if s" acpi_load" unsetenv s" 1" s" hint.acpi.0.disabled" setenv s" 1" s" loader.acpi_disabled_by_user" setenv ----> s" 1" s" hint.apic.0.disabled" setenv then s" 0" s" hw.ata.ata_dma" setenv s" 0" s" hw.ata.atapi_dma" setenv s" 0" s" hw.ata.wc" setenv s" 0" s" hw.eisa_slots" setenv 0 boot then