Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:48:41 +0100 (CET) From: Xavier Beaudouin <kiwi@caudium.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/34487: FreeBSD >= 4.4 cannot boot / install on ASUS P2B-DS Motherboard Message-ID: <200201311348.g0VDmfQ01021@kiwi.home.oav.net>
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>Number: 34487 >Category: kern >Synopsis: FreeBSD >= 4.4 cannot boot / install on ASUS P2B-DS Motherboard >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 31 05:50:01 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Xavier Beaudouin >Release: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 >Organization: The Caudium Group >Environment: System: FreeBSD kiwi.home.oav.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 31 02:57:49 CET 2002 root@kiwi.home.oav.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/KIWI i386 (This was used to send-pr, but here is the description of the machine) ASUS P2B-DS motherboard, with 2 PII-400 (512k - ECC L2 cache), 512M memory Nic : Intel Interexpress, video card cirrus logic, and scsi card adaptec aic onboard. >Description: Using CDROM images or floppy images from FreeBSD 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3, the system will install sligtly without any locks up. But starting with FreeBSD 4.4 or 4.5, the kernel will lock itself (waiting maybe for something it cannot found) just after unsuccesfull probing of ppc0 port. I've tryed numerous configuration : swaping from SCSI to IDE, configure the machine with MPS 1.4 (on bios) enabled or disable, with only one CPU... Note that recent linux version, openbsd, windows, sco or solaris OS works very well on this mobo... >How-To-Repeat: Use CDROM image or floppy installation image, an asus P2B-DS and try to install on it a FreeBSD 4.4 or 4.5 >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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