VIA VE-900 nano X2 boot failure

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 17 July 2012 20:56, Felix Kohtz <felix.kohtz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently purchased a VIA EPIA-VE-900 Nano X2 1,4 GHz Dual Core MiniITX
> Board
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/viamainboards/ve900/index.jsp
>
> and wanted to install FreeBSD (amd64) from an iso-file on it.
>
> I tried to install:
>
> FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE :
> works fine.
> dmesg here: http://pastebay.net/1068207
>
> FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE :
> stops during boot-process.
> (part of - where it stops) dmesg here: http://pastebay.net/1068208
>
> FreeBSD 9.1-RELENG_9-20120716-JPSNAP from
> https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/
> stops during boot-process at same point like 9.0-RELEASE.
>
> FreeBSD 10.0-HEAD-20120717-JPSNAP from
> https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/
> stops during boot-process at same point like 9.0-RELEASE.
>
> I can provide more information on this problem if you say me what is needed
> and i offer to test changes.

To get better diagnostics:
1) try to put hint.hdac.0.disabled="1" into your /boot/device.hints,
to disabled hdac device, then reboot and see if that helps
hdac is under a cloud, since it is included in GENERIC starting from 9.0.
2) boot kernel in verbose mode
(boot_verbose="YES" in /boot/loader.conf or simply boot -v)

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