Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:27:33 -0600 From: Billy Newsom <smartweb@leadhill.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-stable kernel hang during boot Message-ID: <43717AB5.50606@leadhill.net> In-Reply-To: <20051108163041.GB4622@isis.visi.com> References: <20051108163041.GB4622@isis.visi.com>
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See my posts and others on these topics: critical BOOT failure updating to latest 5-Stable (5.4) 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2) [PATCH] option to re-enable aggressive ATA probing Those are from September 2005, when I and others started having problems with the latest (poor) edits to the 5-Stable code. There was obviously a regression for many of us with certain hard drives or systems. As an important side note, notice that I am using a similar computer to yours, an IBM PC365 with dual Pentium Pros. Although I have not tried the patch due to lack of time, I hope that will fix your issue. Also, I wonder if we share a similar bad BIOS issue in which our systems seem to choke on this new code for IDE detection during boot time. See my dmesg output in the archives. BTW, this has effectively kept me from upgrading to the latest 5-Stable since September, as it is not a quick and easy task on my old system. Also, there might be another mailing list - ACPI or something where there may be more answers. I don't know if there is a PR for this, yet. I had thought of filing one, but I sort of forgot. Check the archives to see if someone else did. Billy Paul Keusemann wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an IBM Intellistation M Pro with dual 600 Mhz PIIIs, an IBM > DNES-309170W (da0 on ahc0) as the root drive and HighPoint RocketRaid 1520 > with two WD1600JD drives mirrored as data drives. There is nothing on > ata0 and the CD-ROM drive is the master on ata1. I have been running a > custom kernel (GENERIC with SMP) since installation. The verbose output > from dmesg from the a 5.4 Release kernel (booted from CD-ROM) is attached. > > I installed 5.3 Release on this machine a while back and just decided > to try to upgrade to 5.4 Stable. (This is my first attempt at > doing a buildworld upgrade.) I cvsup'ed /usr/src using the stable-supfile > in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. I then followed the instructions in > /usr/src/Makefile to build world, build a new custom kernel and install > the new kernel. Then I attempted to reboot into single user mode. The > boot hangs while processing ata1, right after the following: > > ata0: [MPSAFE] > ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 > atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0x170 > atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x1c type 4 at 0x376 > > The really interesting part is that after installing the new kernel, > I can't boot from kernel.old or another backup of my custom kernel. > They both hang in the same way as the new kernel. If I boot off the 5.4 > Release CD-ROM, remove the new kernel and rename kernel.old to kernel, > the system comes up just fine. > > At this point I guess I'm looking for any help I can get. > > Could the fact that there is nothing on ata0 be causing a problem? > > I know I can boot the 5.4 Release kernel, would I be better off upgrading > from the install? > > I have had no problems with this machine so I can just scratch > the upgrade, but it would be nice to be able to get it up to 5-stable > and eventually 6-stable. >
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