Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:15:06 +0100 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX loader crash on AM2 Asus M2N32 WS mainboard Message-ID: <47506F4A.7040104@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47505993.2020100@FreeBSD.org> References: <474DB5C9.2050307@freebsd.org> <474E4AC7.3080302@yandex.ru> <474EADFD.4020904@freebsd.org> <47505993.2020100@FreeBSD.org>
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Remko Lodder wrote: > 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 > I tried both the i386 as the AMD64 installation CD, on my workstation and I can get in the installation screen without any problems at all.. >From what I recall from the BIOS settings I dont have the SATA ports enabled on the Marvell chip fwiw. Any other suggestions which I can get to see whether I have the same problem as you have? -- /"\ 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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