From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 04:51:44 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 435BC16A4CE; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 04:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192DE43D53; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 04:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from ajax.noc.ntua.gr (ajax.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.1]) by ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i12CpbFO071921; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:51:37 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from noc.ntua.gr (dhcp-139.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.139]) by ajax.noc.ntua.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i12CpaKY007014; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:51:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Message-ID: <401E47BB.9020102@noc.ntua.gr> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:51:07 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: NTUA/NMC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <20040125111743.GA564@bsd> <401672F7.8080404@noc.ntua.gr> <4018F64A.2090906@noc.ntua.gr> <40196D90.5020604@compgeek.com> <401E144C.3000706@noc.ntua.gr> <401E17D2.90609@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <401E17D2.90609@freebsd.org> 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 12:51:44 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > 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 Darn, I was grepping through rev. 1.7. Thanks! -- Panagiotis Astithas Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD Network Management Center National Technical University of Athens, Greece