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Date:      Sat, 4 Feb 2006 12:49:01 +0800
From:      "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>
To:        bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, markhannon@optusnet.com.au,  Yuri Shemanin <yuri@neva.ru>, Davide Giacca <dave@davethewave.it>,  Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net>, 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)
Message-ID:  <28edec3c0602032049l3d258a5cx72efe2c2ba4b23aa@mail.gmail.com>

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Hiya!

>>
>> 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 ;-)



cheers
mars



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