From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 01:12:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C67616A4CE; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from diomedes.noc.ntua.gr (diomedes.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF7843D3F; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from ajax.noc.ntua.gr (ajax.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.1]) i129C9Rj076813; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:12:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from noc.ntua.gr (dhcp-139.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.139]) by ajax.noc.ntua.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i129C8KY077208; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:12:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Message-ID: <401E144C.3000706@noc.ntua.gr> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:11:40 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: NTUA/NMC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: noackjr@compgeek.com References: <20040125111743.GA564@bsd> <401672F7.8080404@noc.ntua.gr> <4018F64A.2090906@noc.ntua.gr> <40196D90.5020604@compgeek.com> In-Reply-To: <40196D90.5020604@compgeek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System still hangs with "ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:12:17 -0000 Jon Noack wrote: > On 1/29/2004 6:02 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: >> I found out that booting with "Safe mode" (I knew there should be some >> use for it :-)) allows me to complete the process and get to >> sysinstall, in both 5.2-RELEASE & the -current snapshot from 24/1. But >> I tried to do the same from the loader prompt, to no avail. I used the >> following and then "boot" or "boot -v" but every attempt resulted in >> the traditional freeze. >> >> unset acpi_load >> set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 >> set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1 >> set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 >> set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 >> set hw.ata.wc=0 >> set hw.eisa_slots=0 >> >> From what I can tell from the beastie.4th file, that is all that >> should be needed. Am I missing something? > > > You missed disabling apic: > set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 Bingo! But I still can't see how it is being set via the loader's "Safe mode" option. Granted, my forth skills are lacking, but an inquiring mind needs to know :-) Thanks, -- Panagiotis Astithas Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD Network Management Center National Technical University of Athens, Greece