From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 11:20:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-i386@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB33416A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:20:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BE543D45 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:20:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k19BK8vQ072626 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:20:08 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k19BK8T5072625; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:20:08 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:20:08 GMT Message-Id: <200602091120.k19BK8T5072625@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org From: Geoffroy Desvernay Cc: Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Geoffroy Desvernay List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:20:09 -0000 The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Geoffroy Desvernay To: "Mars G. Miro" 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: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:18:40 +0100 Quoting "Mars G. Miro" : > On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay wrote: >> >> >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and >> >>>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 hang) >> > >> > 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. > Working at 133Mhz with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in looader.conf. Thanks for that :) I saw at http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt/view.php?id=233 that a dsdt specific for this board is available... (not fixing all), could this fix anything in my case ? I think I'll give a try on of these days... Geoffroy ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.