From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 16:12:42 2004 Return-Path: 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 D3B1416A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1AC43D31 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) i2O0Cds1003117; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:12:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4060D2E9.9080700@ec.rr.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:14:33 -0500 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040210 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob MacGregor References: <200403231730.i2NHU6CF031331@the-macgregors.org> In-Reply-To: <200403231730.i2NHU6CF031331@the-macgregors.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD (4.9-REL to 5.2.1-REL) on NForce 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:12:43 -0000 Rob MacGregor wrote: >I've got a Shuttle SN45G box that has an NForce 2 chipset that I was having >problems getting working. Having replaced the faulty memory I'm now left >with a major problem - FreeBSD won't install. > >I can install Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mandrake 9.1 and Mandrake 10 without >problems - which is a shame, because I don't want to run any of those :) >However trying to install FreeBSD results in a lockup during the installer. > >With 5.2.1-REL it dies at the "Probing devices" message. When I say "dies", >I mean it - complete lockup - not even the keyboard LEDs will change state. >Doesn't matter if I boot with or without ACPI, into safe mode or what. >4.9-REL has a similar result, except it thrashes the hard disk for 1-2 >seconds before it dies. I've tried leaving it for 5 minutes, but still no >dice. > >Now, when I get a chance I'll try a working FreeBSD disk in the box, but >before I do I'd like to know if anybody else out there has it working. Or, >if there's anything I can do (keeping in mind that I'm not a programmer) to >debug this and help get NForce2 support working (at least on this box). > >TIA > > > I have an nforce2 board and have not done a clean install in with the 5.x system, though I run current. You can not use acpi right now so if you don't have a boot option screen to run without it boot to the promt and set hw.acpi_disable="1"(or something like that).