From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 17:43:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F4F37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:43:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from eagle.sharma-home.net (cpe-66-1-147-119.ca.sprintbbd.net [66.1.147.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A547F43E9C for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:43:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adsharma@eagle.sharma-home.net) Received: by eagle.sharma-home.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2B0895E90E; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:43:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:43:54 -0800 From: Arun Sharma To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-DP2 boot failure on a 440GX motherboard Message-ID: <20021204014354.GA30828@sharma-home.net> References: <20021121003658.GA29026@sharma-home.net> <20021121013553.GA29312@sharma-home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121013553.GA29312@sharma-home.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:35:53PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:36:58PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > > This is a dual Pentium III motherboard, with 2 x PIII at 850 MHz. > > 5.0-DP1 worked just fine on this machine. However, with DP2, I get a > > garbled console (Everything is ok till the Timecounter.. message). > > > > Sometimes the CD manages to boot and get into sysinstall, but hangs > > shortly thereafter. Even the sysinstall output is garbled. > > boot -v output captured from a serial console attached. > I have debugged this some more. I'm able to boot, if I boot from serial console and am careful not to tickle the vga driver too much i.e. interact with the machine over the network or over the serial console. The moment I try to do anything on vga consoles, I get a hang. Another observation: even when booting from the serial console, when the vga driver probes/attaches the hardware, I see garbage written on my vga console. I tested that 11/25 kernel also has this problem. The problem didn't happen with DP1. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message