Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:36:12 +0200 From: Christian Schmidt <schmidt_chr@gmx.net> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot issues with a Dell Inspiron 530 and 8.0 RC1 Message-ID: <309b65830910071036h77276ee2jb2a9c7e82fe7ba9d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1254842240.23831.22.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <309b65830910060054g16a099abxb8e203a46aa9e89c@mail.gmail.com> <1254842240.23831.22.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 17:17, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:54 +0200, Christian Schmidt wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I am seeing a strange issue with my Dell Inspiron 530 with 8.0 RC1-p1 >> at around 50-75% percent of all boots. It all boils down to GENERIC >> throwing the following: >> >> AP #1 (PHY #1) failed! >> panic y/n? [y] panic: bye-bye >> cpuid =3D 0 [...] > There are a couple of things that might be worth trying. =C2=A0Firstly, t= ry > playing with any USB-related options in the BIOS (especially "legacy > emulation" or similar. Okay, I had a look at that one but the BIOS does not feature a lot of options concerning USB. There was nothing about legacy emulation or anything remotely similar, so that was a dead-end. > Secondly, try editing src/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c > (or /sys/i386/i386/machdep.c if you are using i386), search for > "MacBook", and adding the output of the command > "kenv smbios.system.product" > to the list of strings compared. I tried that (with the help of some of the kind people from bsdforen.de ;-)) but that didn't fix the issue at all. Rebooting resulted in panic. Oddly enough, a complete poweroff and reboot from the old kernel worked well enough. Like I said: a cold-boot increases the chances significantly while a reboot is almost always bound to fail. > This may not make any difference, or may even make things worse (so keep > your backup kernel ready:) but it's worth a try. Well, it didn't immolate my machine so I'm fine. ;-) Thanks, Christian --=20 Todays mistakes are tomorrows catastrophes.
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