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

[Geoffroy Desvernay]

Quoting "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro at gmail.com>:

> On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net> wrote:
>>
>> >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and
>> >>>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 hang)
>> >
>> > 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.
>
Working at 133Mhz with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in looader.conf.

Thanks for that :)

I saw at http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt/view.php?id=233 that a dsdt specific 
for this board is available... (not fixing all), could this fix 
anything in my case ? I think I'll give a try on of these days...

Geoffroy

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