Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:10:40 +0200 From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Boot failure with APIC (and other unexplained errors) Message-ID: <200806190810.46062.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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--nextPart1565257.Yrz2gdhkVl Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-01=_hhfWIr2+3jzfIbC" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --Boundary-01=_hhfWIr2+3jzfIbC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I have been struggling for a while to get my Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4L (nFor= ce=20 650i chipset) motherboard to play nicely with FreeBSD. Both Windows Vista = and=20 openSUSE 10.3 are able to boot up and run (with SMP) however I am unable to= =20 get SMP to work with FreeBSD as I have to disable APIC to get the hard-driv= es=20 detected. =20 I have finally gotten the dmesg from booting with APIC enabled (via serial)= =2E =20 Trying to boot from CD, flash or external harddrive all failed (with APIC=20 enabled). When APIC is enabled FreeBSD fails to recognise any IDE drives = (2=20 CD-ROMs) or SATA drives (2 hard drives). If I try boot with an external ha= rd=20 drive (via USB) or with a flash stick then FreeBSD freezes hard in mid boot= =20 (again, only with APIC enabled). =20 I have attached the dmesg's from both a non-APIC and an APIC boot and the A= SL=20 from the non-APIC boot. All using a kernel cvsup'ed today (18 June). =20 Also attached "no-apic.log" is a system crash that occurred during a non-AP= IC=20 boot (success boot, the system had been running for a few minutes) that did= =20 not happen before I updated the kernel (previous update was over a month=20 ago). =20 Apparently there was a memory problem. It did not affect system stability,= =20 only left the system in an inconsistent state when halted, or restarted. I= t=20 has been fixed (and explains some of the problems I had been having before)= =2E =20 Your help will be greatly appreciated. =20 Regards David --Boundary-01=_hhfWIr2+3jzfIbC-- --nextPart1565257.Yrz2gdhkVl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIWfhlUaaFgP9pFrIRAg3kAJ9sG4l2AtLqXUb9XSX7Vi556OICbQCgidZ6 z8xZulyxeFf9WTx35+1xGwc= =hO9p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1565257.Yrz2gdhkVl--
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