Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:38:34 +0000 From: "illy ." <illy.inspace@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can only boot in safe mode - FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <bf22573405081710386c1936e7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm having major dramas getting FreeBSD working on my Laptop. It is a Compaq Presario M2000. System specs: CPU - Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor - 1600 MHz Motherboard - Quanta 3091 RAM - 256 MB DDR Disk Drive - ST94019A (37 GB, IDE) Optical Drive - HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4244N Video Adapter - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M (32 MB) Audio Adapter - Conexant AC-Link Audio I will tell you step by step what I've been through. 1. I could only boot in safe mode in 5.4 - yet when I finished the install it didn't write the boot manager to the mbr. So I tried using a couple of other boot managers (gag, grub) but non of those would install either. 2. I decided to install a minimal 4.11 install. 4.11 would only boot/install disabling sio0. But it worked and installed the FreeBSD Boot manager, which is all I wanted. 3. Then I once again installed 5.4 in safe mode. It worked fine then as the boot manager that 4.11 had put there was still there. Yet I can still only boot in safe mode. Now I know that safe mode disables ACPI, the APIC, ATA and ATAPI DMA, ATA write caching, and all EISA devices. So I figure that it is something here that is my problem. When I boot in to default it gets to=20 ioacpi0 <Version2.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard then freezes, and goes to a blank screen, and the only way out is the power switch. When I boot with ACPI disabled - it gets to the same thing, then it does the same thing. When I add 'debug.acpi.quirks=3D4' into the /boot/loader.conf file. The default boot gets to: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec Then freezes The Verbose boot gets to: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec lo0: bpf attached Then freezes. And the ACPI disabled boot gets to: cpu0 on motherboard Then freezes. I have tried adding a couple of other options to the /boot/loader.conf file. Now of which make any difference at all, including: hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D"0" and "1" hint.apci.0.disabled=3D"1" acpi_load=3D"YES" and even telling it that it is Windoze. There are a couple of other options I have added to, but I cant think of them now my head is swimming :s. Some of the outputs are -=20 # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk 65946 99 irq1: atkbd0 429 0 irq4: fwohci0 4584 6 irq5: rl0 26 0 irq7: 1 0 stray irq7 1 0 irq8: rtc 84410 127 irq11: ohci0 ohci1 272 0 irq12: psm0 124 0 irq13: npx0 1 0 irq14: ata0 1752 2 irq15: ata1 46 0 Total 157592 238 The dmesg for the safe mode boot is: # dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 =09The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ (1600.07-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD" Id =3D 0x10fc0 Stepping =3D 0 Features=3D0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE= ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> AMD Features=3D0xc0500000<NX,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory =3D 233766912 (222 MB) avail memory =3D 219099136 (208 MB) npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 5.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xd0000000-0xd0000fff irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (0x1002) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xd0001000-0xd0001fff irq 11 at device 19.1 on pci0 usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: (0x1002) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 19.2 (no driver attached) pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 20.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 0x8410-0x841f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 20.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.3 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 20.4 on pci0 pci5: <PCI bus> on pcib2 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xd0208000-0xd02080ff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci5 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:9f:b0:1a:af pci5: <network> at device 2.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xd0209000-0xd0209fff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci5 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xd0200000-0xd0203fff,0xd0208800-0xd0208fff irq 4 at device 9.2 on pci5 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=3D1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:c0:9f:00:00:5e:ae:e5 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0 fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:c0:9f:5e:ae:e5 fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:c0:9f:5e:ae:e5 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=3D0xc000ffc0, gen=3D1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <=3D 0, cable IRM =3D 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) pci5: <mass storage> at device 9.3 (no driver attached) pci5: <base peripheral> at device 9.4 (no driver attached) pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 20.5 (no driver attached) pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 20.6 (no driver attached) orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xdc000-0xdffff,0xd0000-0xd0fff,0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 ppc0: parallel port not found. sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory) unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory) unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq) Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1600071465 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec Interrupt storm detected on "irq4: fwohci0"; throttling interrupt source ad0: 38154MB <ST94019A/5.11> [77520/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4244N/1.01> at ata1-master PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a I am desperate, and I don't know what to try next. I have searched google, man pages, articles, and anything I can get my hands on, but to no avail. I was going to add apm to the kernel and try that yet, the warning in the man pages scares me: "WARNING! Many, if not most, of the implementations of APM-bios in lap-tops today are buggy. You may be putting your LCD-display and batteries at a risk by using this interface." I cant afford, this it took me nearly a year to save up for this lap-top, and I just cant lose it (I cant eat I'm so poor from buying it). By the way I'm only a newbie (2 months in FreeBSD), yet I'm willing to do what ever it takes. If I haven't placed enough detail here let me know. Anything else I can provide I will. I just really need to get this working. Please Please if anyone could help I would be so incredibly grateful! Thankyou illy
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