From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 8 02:15:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E942016A4E1; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:15:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto@spock.cl) Received: from mail.spock.cl (enteljoven2.enteljoven.cl [164.77.63.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242CD43D55; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:15:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto@spock.cl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1) by mail.spock.cl with local; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:15:55 -0400 id 000284AC.44D7F3DB.00002238 From: "Roberto de Iriarte" To: amd64@freeBSD.org Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:15:55 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Cc: current@freeBSD.org Subject: Asus A8N-SLI problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:15:54 -0000 Dear developers. I have found an unsolvable problem installing FreeBSD on an Asus A8N-SLI mainboard. I've tried 6.1-RELEASE i386 7.0-i386 (Snapshot from 07/2006) 7.0-amd64 (Snapshot from 07/2006) and found the very same problem, the SATA Harddisks are detected, however, the boot process hangs just after enumerating them. Booting with ACPI disabled does not help either. Booting with the DEBUG option shows the same effect, the boot process hangs after GEOM tries to determine if the disk has a RAID signature. Hardware configuration Asus A8N-SLI Bios revision 014 (Latest) 2 GB SDRAM PC3200 (2x1GB) AMD64 3700+ processor. ATA DVD-RW PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 SATA WDC WD740GD-00FLA2 on port 0 SATA Seagate ST3120827AS on port 1 ATI Radeon X700 PciE video card. I don't know if there is a bug with FreeBSD, thus i have not filled a bug report (should i?) but i suspect something is broken with the A8N-SLI as i've replaced it with a Tyan Tomcat K8E that works perfectly. (And has no high-rpm chipset fan, as a bonus) Regards Roberto de Iriarte