From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 2 23:10:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB4416A41C for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 23:10:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65F743D1D for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 23:10:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 938CB72DD4; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9180B72DCB; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:10:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mike Meyer In-Reply-To: <17090.41727.999521.562972@bhuda.mired.org> Message-ID: <20050702161003.S43007@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200506250622.j5P6MOGf032978@idiom.com> <20050628232828.G3088@carver.gumbysoft.com> <17090.41727.999521.562972@bhuda.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Mike Meyer , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 fails to find boot drive, then panics. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 23:10:14 -0000 On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20050628232828.G3088@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White typed: > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard > > > with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install > > > process, and the install goes just fine. > > > > > > But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence, > > > draws the cute 5.x booto menu, then issues the messages: > > > > > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > > > > > panic: free: guard1 fail @0x5195c from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 > > > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- > > > > > > Booting with debug messages doesn't change this at all. > > > > This is in the loader. Your machine is seriously messed up. I'd suggest > > checking for a BIOS update. Also try rearranging your ATA channels and > > disabling DMA mode for the ATA controllers in the BIOS setup. > > I figured that out. Since writing the original message, I managed to > get the thing (mostly) working by hacking the loader to wire down the > values for the boot drive rather than having it probe for them. > > > Unfortunately ASUS boards of this type are known to have braindamaged > > ACPI, so this is only the beginning of a long, painful journey. :( > > How far does turning off ACPI in the BIOS go towards solving these > problems? I'd be surprised if it does much, if anything. Reportedly, the machine doesn't boot. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org