Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 02:05:27 GMT From: "Jeffrey L. Johnson" <jflnjnsn@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/146446: FreeBSD 8.0 installation hangs at an early stage complaining of interrupt problem Message-ID: <201005100205.o4A25RIA030132@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201005100210.o4A2A1ol078795@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 146446
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: FreeBSD 8.0 installation hangs at an early stage complaining of interrupt problem
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon May 10 02:10:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeffrey L. Johnson
>Release: FreeBSD 8.0 DVD
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
Tyan 2462 motherboard with 2 ea 32b AMD Athlon MP 1.2 MHz CPUs and 1GB of RAM (i386)
>Description:
Dear FreeBSD maintainers:
I want to switch to FreeBSD 8.0 as my primary OS, but installation crashes uniformly. As my system is a rather plain desktop configuration, my problem may possibly affect many potential FreeBSD users.
My system is based on a Tyan 2462 motherboard from 2002 with 2 each 32b AMD Athlon MP 1.2 MHz CPUs and 1GB of RAM. I run Solaris on one HDD and Windows XP on another. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.0 from DVD on a third drive. The following is a brief description of my hardware:
Attached hardware:
USB:
H-P DeskJet 845c
Plustek Optic Film 7200i film-strip/slide scanner
Epson Perfection 1250 flatbed scanner
HDDs:
Seagate 160GB ATI
Seagate 200GB ATI
Seagate 80GB SCSI - not operational, apparent configuration problem
Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM (target of FreeBSD installation)
floppy drive
Video adapters:
Installed
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP)
ATI Rage XL built into the motherboard
On hand:
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI)
Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP)
PCI:
4-port USB
Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 audio
Early in the install process (Sysinstall menu is never reached), a menu appears, headed by "Welcome to FreeBSD!". The default choice is "Boot FreeBSD." No matter which choice I make, the result is the same: splash screen messages go by, including those related to hardware detection. Then the message "run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after [120,180,240,...] seconds for xpt_config" flashes by once per minute. Then the following message appears and stays for the remainder of the minute:
"<<<Dump Card State Ends>>>
(probe[0,1,...]:ahc0:0:[1,2...]:0): SCB 0x[f8,...] - timed out
sg[0] - Addr {0x25444a0,...] : Length 36
(probe [0,1,...] :ahc):0:[1,2...]): SCB 248: Immediate reset. Flags =0x620/Other SCB Timeout.
(probe [0,1,...] :ahc):0:[1,2...]): no longer in timeout, status = 25b/No other SCB worth waiting for.
ahc0: Issued channel A Bus reset. 12SCBs aborted
Infinite interrupt loop, INTSTAT = 0ahc0: Timedout SCBs already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning."
(The cyclical increments denoted by the progressions [m,n...] are actually somewhat irregular.)
Even after several hours, Free BSD installation never gets beyond this point (before I ever come to making choices for disk drives and slices.) Other FreeBSD and PC-BSD 8.0 install CDs all fail in the same manner.
8.0 successfully installed on the same system a couple months ago, but that installation was removed. At the time I was using the following video adapters: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI) and Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP), whereas now I am using an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP) and the ATI Rage XL built into the motherboard. Some configuration settings may have been changed in the system setup ROM (accessible at boot-time), but I haven't found the culprit.
Suggestions on how to proceed would be much appreciated.
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt OS install on same hardware with any v. 8.0 Free/PC-BSD CD/DVD.
>Fix:
Possibly switch back to the Nvidia AGP video adapter from the ATI AGP video adapter
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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