From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 10:50:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2401D16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (mta04-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290AE43D2F for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swampdog-ml1@ntlworld.com) Received: from sd.swampdog ([80.4.128.76]) by mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040319184946.IXZG4168.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@sd.swampdog>; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:46 +0000 From: Guy Harrison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:17 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200402260031.07636.swamp-dog@ntlworld.com> <44oerlc1f8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200402262222.56938.swamp-dog@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <314859268.20040228114349@buz.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403191849.17678.swampdog-ml1@ntlworld.com> cc: Gabriel Ambuehl Subject: Re[2]: 5.2(x)-RELEASE panic booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:50:08 -0000 Hi Guy Harrison, you wrote. >> Do you get the same result if booting without ACPI? GH> Yes. I'm assuming here that the [default] boot option does not have ACPI GH> enabled (if so, how to disable it?). The boot results are identical to GH> when I select option 2 to boot with ACPI enabled. > I too get a page fault when trying to boot from that ISO on a P3 1GHZ > with SiS 630 chipset. I think my memory is fine as it ran through 10 memtest runs > without a single problem (my original motivation was to install 5.2.1 > on that box to check whether the weird MySQL issue really doesn't > exist on Intel CPUs). > > > It is fine on an Athlon XP2400 using VIA KT400 based mainboard though. Not my month this - you name it, and its gone wrong, packed up, vanished or plonked itself nicely into the bizarre category. Fwiw, it appears I have a cheap Alladin V clone. Booting can be achieved by disabling power management in the BIOS *plus* fiddling with an IRQ3 option that I don't fully understand (can't get a decent bios manual). That'll get the machine to boot. Next problem manifests itself as dodgy ram - gcc & bz2 failures. Default CS latency is "Auto" but setting it specifically to match the ram (CS=2) improves things greatly. The north/south bridge chips don't match any datasheet - iirc it appears one is off one particular release series, the other off the next mobo release. Finally nailed the remaining reliability problem down to UDMA. Moment I turned it off, spurious faults went away and haven't re-occurred since. Obviously this mobo is a pile of junk. On the off-chance there's useful info to be had, here's how it fires up currently... Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc09e3000. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping = 0 Features=0x8001bf AMD Features=0x80000800 real memory = 201326592 (192 MB) avail memory = 185921536 (177 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f7dd0 pcib0: at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pci_cfgintr: 0:14 INTA BIOS irq 11 pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA BIOS irq 10 pci_cfgintr: 0:18 INTA BIOS irq 9 agp0: mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: at device 14.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 15.0 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata0: [MPSAFE] ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ata1: [MPSAFE] vr0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xdfffff00-0xdfffffff irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:8c:7d:f8 miibus0: on vr0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto ahc0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xdfffd000-0xdfffdfff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0 aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs orm0: