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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2011 20:24:37 +0200
From:      David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [regression] unable to boot: no GEOM devices found.
Message-ID:  <201105092024.41588.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201104152329.59294.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
References:  <mailpost.1302585106.8448174.20731.mailing.freebsd.current@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <201104151228.06105.jhb@freebsd.org> <201104152329.59294.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>

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On Friday 15 April 2011 23:29:55 David Naylor wrote:
> On Friday 15 April 2011 18:28:06 John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:07:06 pm David Naylor wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 12 April 2011 22:12:55 Alexander Motin wrote:
> > > > David Naylor wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday 12 April 2011 08:17:51 Alexander Motin wrote:
> > > > >> David Naylor wrote:
> > > > >>> I am running -current and since a few days ago (at least
> > > > >>> 2011/04/11) I am unable to boot.
> > > > >>>=20
> > > > >>> The boot process stops when it looks to find a bootable device.
> > > > >>> The prompt (when pressing '?') does not display any device and
> > > > >>> yielding
> >=20
> > one
> >=20
> > > > >>> second (or more) to the kernel (by pressing '.') does not impro=
ve
> > > > >>> the situation.
> > > > >>>=20
> > > > >>> A known working date is 2011/02/20.
> > > > >>>=20
> > > > >>> I am running amd64 on a nVidia MCP51 chipset.
> > > > >>=20
> > > > >> MCP51... again...
> > > >=20
> > > > +ata2: reiniting channel ..
> > > > +ata2: SATA connect time=3D0ms status=3D00000113
> > > > +ata2: reset tp1 mask=3D01 ostat0=3D58 ostat1=3D00
> > > > +ata2: stat0=3D0x50 err=3D0x01 lsb=3D0x00 msb=3D0x00
> > > > +ata2: reset tp2 stat0=3D50 stat1=3D00 devices=3D0x1
> > > > +ata2: reinit done ..
> > > > +unknown: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out LBA=3D0
> > > >=20
> > > > As soon as all devices detected but not responding to commands, I
> > > > would suppose that there is something wrong with ATA interrupts.
> > > > There is a long chain of interrupt problems in this chipset. I have
> > > > already tried to debug one case where ATA wasn't generating
> > > > interrupts at all. Unfortunately, without success -- requests were
> > > > executing, but not generating interrupts, it wasn't looked like ATA
> > > > driver problem.
> > > >=20
> > > > What's about possible candidate to revision triggering your problem,
> > > > I would look on this message:
> > > > +pcib0: Enabling MSI window for HyperTransport slave at pci0:0:9:0
> > > >=20
> > > > At least it is recent (SVN revs 219737,219740 on 2011-03-18 by jhb)
> > > > and it is interrupt related.
> > >=20
> > > I reverted those two revs and everything works again.
> >=20
> > Hmm, can you provide a full boot verbose dmesg?  Alternatively, can you
> > see if the device at pci0:0:9:0 is a PCI-PCI bridge?
>=20
> I can provide a verbose dmesg if the following is not enough:
>=20
> none17@pci0:0:9:0:      class=3D0x050000 card=3D0x50011458 chip=3D0x02701=
0de
> rev=3D0xa2 hdr=3D0x00
>     vendor     =3D 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     device     =3D 'MCP51 Host Bridge'
>     class      =3D memory
>     subclass   =3D RAM
>=20
> I see two PCI-PCI bridges at pci0:0:3:0 and pci0:0:16:0.  I've attached t=
he
> full `pciconf -lv` output.

=46YI, this issue is still present on current (~24 hours old).  Reverting t=
he =20
above mentioned revisions still fixes the problem. =20

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