From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 04:22:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09EB816A4E2 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 04:22:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B543643D1F for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 04:22:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 31166 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 04:21:04 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Jul 2004 04:21:03 -0000 Received: from 131.106.58.153 (p58.n-nypop02.stsn.com [199.106.89.58]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i624KpfB029796; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 00:20:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Jiafu He Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 00:22:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040702040236.42896.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040702040236.42896.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407020022.02219.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:22:22 -0000 On Friday 02 July 2004 12:02 am, Jiafu He wrote: > John Baldwin 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? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org