i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)

[Mars G. Miro]

The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro at gmail.com>
To: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:26:29 +0800

 On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net> wrote:
 >
 > >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard a=
 nd
 > >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006).
 > >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but
 > >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet.
 > >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then han=
 g)
 > >
 > > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and
 > > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the HD
 > > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS.
 > >
 > > Try this and report back ;-)
 > >
 > Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of
 > 133Mhz) seems to work...
 >
 > I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have it
 > on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the moment.=
 ..
 >
 
 Also try disabling APIC (not ACPI) as I've encountered several mobos
 that have this implemented poorly w/c results in weird behaviors of
 the OS.
 
 > I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ?
 >
 
 I'm not aware of any patches but I think this is just a hardware
 config problem tho YMMV.
 
 > Geoffroy.
 >
 >
 >
 
 
 cheers
 mars