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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 2004 00:22:02 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jiafu He <jiafu_he@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help
Message-ID:  <200407020022.02219.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040702040236.42896.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040702040236.42896.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Friday 02 July 2004 12:02 am, Jiafu He wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:12 pm, Jiafu He wrote:
> > Hi, folks,
> >
> > Rel 5.2.1 can't be installed on my machine due to APIC problems. The
> > error message is like "ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY no interrupt".
> > It is a Soyo motherboard "SY-P4VGA" with VIA VT-8235 south bridge.
> >
> > Debugging results using DDB ("show intrcnt") show no interrupts ever
> > occur. Disable the APIC feature on BIOS, then the disk is detected and
> > everything works fine. Installing release 5.1 and 4.10 both work perfect.
> > So I guess there must be problems with the APIC or IO APIC initialization
> > code in release 5.2.1.
>
> Do you have a dmesg output with APIC enabled?
>
> I can see it on my monitor, However I can't even have my disk attached, do
> I have a way to save it anywhere? :( If you want a dmesg from R5.1, I can
> send it to you.
>
> Jiafu

Do you have a serial console?

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