Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:42:27 +0100 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX loader crash on AM2 Asus M2N32 WS mainboard Message-ID: <47505993.2020100@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <474EADFD.4020904@freebsd.org> References: <474DB5C9.2050307@freebsd.org> <474E4AC7.3080302@yandex.ru> <474EADFD.4020904@freebsd.org>
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Andre Oppermann wrote: > Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >> Andre Oppermann wrote: >>> The BTX loader crashes on a brand new AM2 Asus M2N32 WS >>> Professional mainboard with nForce790 SLI chipset. The CPU is AMD >> >> Hm.. I think it's nForce 590. > > Indeed. > >>> Athlon 64 X2 4800+. The system has got an Areca ARC-1220 8-port >>> PCI-E SATA2 RAID controller, a Intel PCI-X Pro/1000MT NIC and an >>> ATI RV370 based graphics card (Asus EAX1050&TD/256M, PCI-E). RAM is >>> upped to 8GB in 4 times 2GB of Kingston KVR667D2N5/2G (DDR2-667, >>> CL5). >>> >>> Any suggestions and help appreciated. >> >> Ok. I have the same motherboard and i think your CD drive connected >> to the integrated Marvell 88SE6141 controller's port. > > Yes, the CDROM was connected to the Marvell based PATA port. > >> It's not supported by the our ATA driver yet. Try to reconnect your >> CD drive to the NVIDIA controller's port. > > That should not make a difference as the kernel isn't yet loaded. > It's all within the loader operating through BIOS calls (?). > It looks like the Marvell ATA BIOS upsets the loader when booting > from one its drives. > > When reconnecting the CDROM to the nForce based PATA port the loader > doesn't crash anymore and the kernel begins to boot until this: > > atapci0: <nVidia nForce MCP55 UDMA133 controller> port > 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177, 0x376,0xf400-0xf40f at device 12.0 on pci0 > ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 > ata0: [ITHREAD] > ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > ata1: [ITHREAD] > ... > acd0: DVDR <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-103/2.00> at ata0-master PIO4 > ... > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x06 > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install. > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x06 > > then it just hangs (not hard though)... Have tried it with two > different CDROM drivers from different makers with identical results > (the other drive is a plain Toshiba DVDROM). Image is FreeBSD 7.0BETA3 > AMD64 burned to a CD-R. Exactly the same problem with BETA3 i386. > FreeBSD 6.2R i386 boots into the installer successfully. > I have to admit that on the Other Operating System out there (and it's not Linux ;-)) I have a problem with the ATA controller as well, when I play a DVD on the device, it will stop after using it 10 minutes and I have the same motherboard as you have. I'll have a look what happends when I try the install CD for 7.x in both a SATA port as the ATA port so that we can ruleout what happends. Cheers remko -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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