Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 02:30:12 GMT From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Message-ID: <200602080230.k182UCMC038969@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> To: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:26:29 +0800 On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> wrote: > > >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard a= nd > >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006). > >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but > >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet. > >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then han= g) > > > > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and > > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the HD > > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS. > > > > Try this and report back ;-) > > > Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of > 133Mhz) seems to work... > > I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have it > on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the moment.= .. > Also try disabling APIC (not ACPI) as I've encountered several mobos that have this implemented poorly w/c results in weird behaviors of the OS. > I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ? > I'm not aware of any patches but I think this is just a hardware config problem tho YMMV. > Geoffroy. > > > cheers mars
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