i386/80268: System with Transmeta Efficeon cpu crashes while booting

[Moritz]

>Number:         80268
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       System with Transmeta Efficeon cpu crashes while booting
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 22 22:50:22 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Moritz
>Release:        5.4 RC3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD moonlight.home 5.4-RC3 FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 #0: Sun Apr 17 09:23:46 UTC 2005     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
I have got an Elitegroup A532 Notebook with a Transmeta Efficeon cpu.
For hardware specification hava a look at:
http://www.ecsusa.com/products/532.html

When I boot from Install Disk 1 there are 3 posibilities for the system to crash:

The ealiest ist just when the boot menu appears. [not very often]
Second: while booting with error message (look at the end of this text!) [happens when the 2. and 3. boot option are selected]
third: crash together with the install menu. The system then does not react on any key press and is crashed [happens when the 2 others do not happen....]

Windows 2000 and all kind of Linux distributions are running well.

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Here is the Output of the crash while booting:

usb1: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev. 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removeable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 15.3 (no driver attached)
cpu0 on motherboard


Fatal trap 9: gerneral protection fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
instruction pointer		= 0x58:0x68fc
stack pointer			= 0x10:0xf9e
frame pointer			= 0x10:0xfd2
code segment			= base 0xc00f0000, limit 0xffff, type 0x1b
				= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 0, gran 0
processor eflags		= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process			= 0 (swapper)
trap number			= 9
panic: general protection fault
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 1s
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
--> Press a key in the console to reboot,
--> or switch off the system now.
>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
      
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