From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 13:32:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC9316A41C for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:32:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1120915968.da012d@mired.org) Received: from delight.idiom.com (delight.idiom.com [216.240.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2576143D1F for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:32:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1120915968.da012d@mired.org) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D561F74E1 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (mwm@idiom [216.240.32.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5TDW743054493 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1120915968.da012d@mired.org) Received: (qmail 14719 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jun 2005 13:32:48 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:32:48 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17090.41727.999521.562972@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:32:47 -0400 To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20050628232828.G3088@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200506250622.j5P6MOGf032978@idiom.com> <20050628232828.G3088@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer Cc: Mike Meyer , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 fails to find boot drive, then panics. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:32:14 -0000 In <20050628232828.G3088@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White typed: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard > > with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install > > process, and the install goes just fine. > > > > But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence, > > draws the cute 5.x booto menu, then issues the messages: > > > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > > > panic: free: guard1 fail @0x5195c from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 > > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- > > > > Booting with debug messages doesn't change this at all. > > This is in the loader. Your machine is seriously messed up. I'd suggest > checking for a BIOS update. Also try rearranging your ATA channels and > disabling DMA mode for the ATA controllers in the BIOS setup. I figured that out. Since writing the original message, I managed to get the thing (mostly) working by hacking the loader to wire down the values for the boot drive rather than having it probe for them. > Unfortunately ASUS boards of this type are known to have braindamaged > ACPI, so this is only the beginning of a long, painful journey. :( How far does turning off ACPI in the BIOS go towards solving these problems? I'd be surprised if it does much, if anything. At this point, I'm chasing a problem with network connections. Connecting to the POP server on this machine seems to take forever. Thanks, http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.