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

[Mars G. Miro]

On 2/9/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net> wrote:
> 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 :)
>

Actually, I was referring to disabling APIC in the BIOS, not in
FreeBSD. But I'm glad that it works ;-)

> 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...
>

That I have no clue ;-)


> Geoffroy
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cheers
mars