From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 06:40:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B531065673 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585878FC17 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mB16e39I019430 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mB16e34S019429; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:40:03 GMT Message-Id: <200812010640.mB16e34S019429@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org From: "Robert J. Brown" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:24:27 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: amd64/129315: amd64 motherboard: Intel DG965WH motherboard compatibility with AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Robert J. Brown" List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:40:04 -0000 The following reply was made to PR amd64/129315; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Robert J. Brown" To: Bruce Albrecht Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64/129315: amd64 motherboard: Intel DG965WH motherboard compatibility with AMD64 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:05:13 -0800 On Nov 30, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Bruce Albrecht wrote: >> > > How much memory is installed on this machine? I have one of these > motherboards, with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and 4 GB memory. Mine has an > older BIOS (I think from about a year ago), but at the time there > was a bug in the BIOS that caused it to return bad values so that > the memory over 4GB was misclassified. Linux users were able to > manually reclassify the memory, but I never got it working on > FreeBSD. If you are running with more than 4GB memory, what happens > if you remove memory, or add > > hw.physmem="4G" > > to /boot/loader.conf? > > Here's a link to a message thread to my problem with this board: > http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/92fd4e9ef6f2b5bb > Bruce, Thanks for the reply. This system has 3GB of memory, 2 banks of matched 512MB and 2 banks of matched 1GB. I saw the BIOS weirdness about the 4GB issue but since I have less than that amount I didn't pay much attention to it. Thanks for the link - I will check that out as well. For now I am trying various combinations of BIOS settings for the disk controller combined with set hint.apic.0.disabled="1", unset acpi_load, and set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1". Disabling ACPI causes a freeze instead of a complete reboot, which is progress. There are lots of messages about not properly allocating IRQs which I find strange. The system on 7.0-RELEASE with ACPI/APIC disabled hangs when trying to mount the image to continue the installation. Do you have FreeBSD 7.X / amd64 running on this board? If yes, can you provide your exact BIOS release? I'll downgrade to that and see if it helps. Thanks, -Robert -- Robert J. Brown rjb@robertjbrown.com