Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:12:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to troubleshoot fundamental boot failure? Message-ID: <200002170112.RAA02262@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:46:54 CST." <20000216154654.A54592@luke.immure.com>
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> I have just received a Supermicro PIIIDM3 motherboard and have not been > successful getting FreeBSD to boot on it (I've tried 3.4-RELEASE and > several flavors of 4.0-current). Very early on in the boot (following > the 10-second countdown) it prints out the opening message (copyright, > I believe) and then immediately reboots. This motherboard has the new > Intel 840 chipset, an AGP Pro slot, 4 32-bit PCI slots and 2 64-bit PCI > slots. It is a dual CPU board however I only have a single 533MHz PIII > installed. > > I'm not certain on what is the best procedure to proceed with attemting > to further debug this. Any/all suggestions will be gratefully received. First step would be to boot with a serial console and -v, so that you can narrow down the point at which it's dying. After that you'll probably need to apply some printf-style debugging. At a guess, I'd be worried about some of the BIOS probing and calls that go on at around that stage, as well as the memory probes. More data would give us a better idea, of course. If anyone in the SF Bay area has one of these boards they could lend for a few days, I could probably help narrow this down fairly quickly. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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