From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 7 17:36:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BD1106566B for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:36:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christian@nertenher.de) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBCA8FC18 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so5001955fxm.36 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:36:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: christian@nertenher.de Received: by 10.223.144.67 with SMTP id y3mr90420fau.20.1254936992298; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:36:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1254842240.23831.22.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <309b65830910060054g16a099abxb8e203a46aa9e89c@mail.gmail.com> <1254842240.23831.22.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> From: Christian Schmidt Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:36:12 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 48b792d462474159 Message-ID: <309b65830910071036h77276ee2jb2a9c7e82fe7ba9d@mail.gmail.com> To: Gavin Atkinson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot issues with a Dell Inspiron 530 and 8.0 RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:36:35 -0000 On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 17:17, Gavin Atkinson 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.