From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 20: 4: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEB937B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.147.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D6343E9C for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:03:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from april.chuckr.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by april.chuckr.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB43xhGM017502; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:59:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by april.chuckr.org (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id gB43xebT017499; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:59:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: april.chuckr.org: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:59:40 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Arun Sharma Cc: Subject: Re: 5.0-DP2 boot failure on a 440GX motherboard In-Reply-To: <20021204014354.GA30828@sharma-home.net> Message-ID: <20021203225814.X13335-100000@april.chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:35:53PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:36:58PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > > > This is a dual Pentium III motherboard, with 2 x PIII at 850 MHz. > > > 5.0-DP1 worked just fine on this machine. However, with DP2, I get a > > > garbled console (Everything is ok till the Timecounter.. message). > > > > > > Sometimes the CD manages to boot and get into sysinstall, but hangs > > > shortly thereafter. Even the sysinstall output is garbled. > > > > boot -v output captured from a serial console attached. > > > > I have debugged this some more. I'm able to boot, if I boot from serial > console and am careful not to tickle the vga driver too much i.e. > interact with the machine over the network or over the serial console. > > The moment I try to do anything on vga consoles, I get a hang. Is this a hard hang, or is the vga output frozen (and keyboard still works, X still works, ssh still works) like I've been reporting? > > Another observation: even when booting from the serial console, when the > vga driver probes/attaches the hardware, I see garbage written on my vga > console. > > I tested that 11/25 kernel also has this problem. The problem didn't > happen with DP1. > > -Arun > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message