Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:20:11 GMT From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Message-ID: <200602091320.k19DKBar083361@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> To: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:17:22 +0800 On 2/9/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> wrote: > Quoting "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>: > > > On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> wrote: > >> > >> >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboar= d > and > >> >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006). > >> >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang b= ut > >> >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet. > >> >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then > hang) > >> > > >> > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and > >> > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the H= D > >> > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS. > >> > > >> > Try this and report back ;-) > >> > > >> Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of > >> 133Mhz) seems to work... > >> > >> I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have i= t > >> on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the > moment... > >> > > > > Also try disabling APIC (not ACPI) as I've encountered several mobos > > that have this implemented poorly w/c results in weird behaviors of > > the OS. > > > >> I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ? > >> > > > > I'm not aware of any patches but I think this is just a hardware > > config problem tho YMMV. > > > Working at 133Mhz with hint.apic.0.disabled=3D"1" in looader.conf. > > Thanks for that :) > Actually, I was referring to disabling APIC in the BIOS, not in FreeBSD. But I'm glad that it works ;-) > I saw at http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt/view.php?id=3D233 that a dsdt specific > for this board is available... (not fixing all), could this fix > anything in my case ? I think I'll give a try on of these days... > That I have no clue ;-) > Geoffroy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > cheers mars
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