From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 6 01:36:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A7216A41F for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA3643D48 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:36:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 70F9F14FCC; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:36:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id ACED04AC09; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:36:31 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17460.28831.654955.333279@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:36:31 -0400 To: "Jack Vogel" In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0604051709v379c2cc0he5642f76494db8b@mail.gmail.com> References: <17460.22467.330090.949775@canoe.dclg.ca> <2a41acea0604051709v379c2cc0he5642f76494db8b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Gilbert Subject: Re: Frustrating inability to boot amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:36:31 -0000 >>>>> "Jack" == Jack Vogel writes: Jack> On 4/5/06, David Gilbert wrote: >> At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, >> AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system >> --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest >> board, it can turn off APIC. If I do that, FreeBSD hangs after >> detecting the disks. The only "wrong" thing on the screen is >> >> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff805ebcc0, 0) >> error 6 >> >> I have tested boot CDs for amd64 from 6.0-RELEASE, 6.1-BETA1 and >> 6.1-BETA4. None have successfully booted on these boards. >> >> Strangely enough, i386 boots fine, APIC and all. >> >> Dave. Jack> Whats the first thing anyone that might help you gonna need??? Jack> Motherboard details, chipset, memory, etc etc... :) Jack> I have two different amd64 systems, both have run FreeBSD 6 Jack> RELEASE, and one is running CURRENT, so its not the architecture Jack> in general thats broken. Jack> One last resort you might try, boot Failsafe, I've had that work Jack> when just turning off ACPI doesnt. Well... the other motherboard have already been exchanged, but the current frustration is with a MSI K8NGM2 which runs an Nvidia 430/410 chipset. However, the other boards each had a different chipset and (as much as possible) a different bios. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================