safe mode

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, October 29, 2010 11:17:50 am Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a problem getting 6.3 to boot on an intel atom mb. When it 
> gets to
> where it should identify the drive it hangs.
> 
> If I boot with no acpi it does the same thing.
> 
> If I boot with safe mode it comes up and identifies the drive but then
> starts spewing the following errors:
> ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding disabled, 
> default to ad
> interrupt storm detected on "irq15:"; throttling interrupt source
> ad4: 152627MB <WDC WD1600BEKT-00A25T0 01.01A01> at ata2-master PIO4
> interrupt storm detected on "irq15:"; throttling interrupt source
> interrupt storm detected on "irq15:"; throttling interrupt source
> interrupt storm detected on "irq15:"; throttling interrupt source

It's odd that you have IRQ15 without a handler.  It also seems that, for 
whatever reason, IRQ15 is set to level trigger, active low (default for PCI) 
instead of edge trigger, active hi (default for ISA).  Would be interesting to 
see a verbose dmesg from a 7.2 boot perhaps.

-- 
John Baldwin