Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 02:05:27 GMT From: "Jeffrey L. Johnson" <jflnjnsn@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/146446: FreeBSD 8.0 installation hangs at an early stage complaining of interrupt problem Message-ID: <201005100205.o4A25RIA030132@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201005100210.o4A2A1ol078795@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 146446 >Category: kern >Synopsis: FreeBSD 8.0 installation hangs at an early stage complaining of interrupt problem >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon May 10 02:10:01 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jeffrey L. Johnson >Release: FreeBSD 8.0 DVD >Organization: none >Environment: Tyan 2462 motherboard with 2 ea 32b AMD Athlon MP 1.2 MHz CPUs and 1GB of RAM (i386) >Description: Dear FreeBSD maintainers: I want to switch to FreeBSD 8.0 as my primary OS, but installation crashes uniformly. As my system is a rather plain desktop configuration, my problem may possibly affect many potential FreeBSD users. My system is based on a Tyan 2462 motherboard from 2002 with 2 each 32b AMD Athlon MP 1.2 MHz CPUs and 1GB of RAM. I run Solaris on one HDD and Windows XP on another. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.0 from DVD on a third drive. The following is a brief description of my hardware: Attached hardware: USB: H-P DeskJet 845c Plustek Optic Film 7200i film-strip/slide scanner Epson Perfection 1250 flatbed scanner HDDs: Seagate 160GB ATI Seagate 200GB ATI Seagate 80GB SCSI - not operational, apparent configuration problem Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM (target of FreeBSD installation) floppy drive Video adapters: Installed ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP) ATI Rage XL built into the motherboard On hand: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI) Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP) PCI: 4-port USB Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 audio Early in the install process (Sysinstall menu is never reached), a menu appears, headed by "Welcome to FreeBSD!". The default choice is "Boot FreeBSD." No matter which choice I make, the result is the same: splash screen messages go by, including those related to hardware detection. Then the message "run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after [120,180,240,...] seconds for xpt_config" flashes by once per minute. Then the following message appears and stays for the remainder of the minute: "<<<Dump Card State Ends>>> (probe[0,1,...]:ahc0:0:[1,2...]:0): SCB 0x[f8,...] - timed out sg[0] - Addr {0x25444a0,...] : Length 36 (probe [0,1,...] :ahc):0:[1,2...]): SCB 248: Immediate reset. Flags =0x620/Other SCB Timeout. (probe [0,1,...] :ahc):0:[1,2...]): no longer in timeout, status = 25b/No other SCB worth waiting for. ahc0: Issued channel A Bus reset. 12SCBs aborted Infinite interrupt loop, INTSTAT = 0ahc0: Timedout SCBs already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning." (The cyclical increments denoted by the progressions [m,n...] are actually somewhat irregular.) Even after several hours, Free BSD installation never gets beyond this point (before I ever come to making choices for disk drives and slices.) Other FreeBSD and PC-BSD 8.0 install CDs all fail in the same manner. 8.0 successfully installed on the same system a couple months ago, but that installation was removed. At the time I was using the following video adapters: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI) and Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP), whereas now I am using an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP) and the ATI Rage XL built into the motherboard. Some configuration settings may have been changed in the system setup ROM (accessible at boot-time), but I haven't found the culprit. Suggestions on how to proceed would be much appreciated. >How-To-Repeat: Attempt OS install on same hardware with any v. 8.0 Free/PC-BSD CD/DVD. >Fix: Possibly switch back to the Nvidia AGP video adapter from the ATI AGP video adapter >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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