Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:34:12 GMT From: Harald von Fellenberg <productnews@hvf.ch> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: amd64/170677: FreeBSD 9.x does not boot if 2 hard disks are on system Message-ID: <201208161934.q7GJYCaR080085@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201208161940.q7GJeBub093218@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 170677 >Category: amd64 >Synopsis: FreeBSD 9.x does not boot if 2 hard disks are on system >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 16 19:40:11 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Harald von Fellenberg >Release: FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 12 09:38:51 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: FreeBSD 9.x does not boot on AMD64 system (16GB mem) when 2 hard disks are present, but boots if second disk is removed. I tried FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 and, earlier, PCBSD 9.0-RELEASE and PCBSD 9.0-STABLE-20120524 (all 64 bit). The behaviour is similar. Hardware configuration: ----------------------- Motherboard: GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3(rev. 1.0) BIOS version: F9 CPU: Intel i5 2500K (3300) Quad Core CPU frequency: 3300 MHz Memory: 16 GB, Kingston DDR3-SDRAM 1333 MHz Harddisks: 2 Western Digital WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 1 TB (SATA) CD/DVD R/W: iHAS124 (SATA) Graphics card: ASUS Nvidia GeForce ENGTX550 Ti DC DI Power Supply: 550 W BIOS Parameters (only the interesting ones) ------------------------------------------- BIOS Version F9 EFI CD/DVD boot option AUTO HDD SMART ENABLED PCH SATA control mode AHCI SATA Port 0-3 native mode ENABLED GSATA3 controller ENABLED System Behaviour: ----------------- I bought the system in November 2011 with one HD and one DVD R/W. I run this in a multi-boot configuration with Windows-7, Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid lynx), Debian (squeeze), PCBSD 9.0 (FreeBSD based). Everything worked fine. Last month I added a second HD (identical type to first HD). Installation details see above. Windows-7, Ubuntu, and Debian worked as expected. But FreeBSD and PCBSD do not start properly. I get the following display: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk 0 BIOS drive D: is disk 1 | The vertical bar | shows usually the "spinner", a rapid sequence of | / - \ giving the user the impression ot a spinnign wheel, until the loader prompt is displayed and the boot process continues. In my case, the "spinner" does not spin, but remains quiet or advances a few times in a multi-second interval until coming to complete stop. This behaviour is the same for all the different SCSI and BIOS configurations that I have tried. The same behaviour occurs for booting PCBSD 9.x from HD, from DVD, and from USB stick. FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 boots from CD and can be installed on HD, but the installed system then gets stuck like shown. In other words, FreeBSD cannot be run. I assume that it is the bootstrap loader that poses a problem. >How-To-Repeat: the second disk has been unplugged (power and/or SATA), then both PCBSD and FreeBSD can be booted and run from the first HD. After pluggin in the second disk, booting FreeBSD and PCBSD fails. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:help
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