Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:20:05 GMT From: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> 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: <200602071820.k17IK5Ax004946@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> To: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, markhannon@optusnet.com.au, Yuri Shemanin <yuri@neva.ru>, Davide Giacca <dave@davethewave.it>, 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: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:13:39 +0100 >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006). >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but >>>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 HD > 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 it on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the moment... I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ? Geoffroy.
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