amd64/129315: amd64 motherboard: Intel DG965WH motherboard compatibility with AMD64

[Robert J. Brown]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/129315; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Robert J. Brown" <rjb at robertjbrown.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
 rjb at robertjbrown.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/129315: amd64 motherboard: Intel DG965WH motherboard compatibility with AMD64
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:33:57 -0800

 I have since tried a few things:
 
 -- Removed memory down to 1GB (matched pair of 512mb modules, dual  
 channel mode - channel A DIMM0, channel B DIMM0)
 
 -- Backed the BIOS down to earlier revisions due to other reports of  
 bug issues with newer BIOSes. I tried 1754, 1716, 1705, 1699, and  
 1669. The 1669 BIOS was supposed to fix some bugs introduced in later  
 revisions but my system behaves exactly the same. 
 
 
 With 7.0-RELEASE, option 1 on the install CD still does a clean reboot  
 about half way through kernel initialization. Option 2 to disable ACPI  
 gets further and then hangs while trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ 
 md0. This requires a manual reboot.
 
 Here is what I can see of the screen as it is frozen from option #2.  
 This was manually typed in.
 
 -- BEGIN SCREEN CAPTURE --
 
 device_attach: atapci1 attach returned 6
 pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcb800-0xcd7ff, 0xcd800-0xce7ff,  
 0xce800-0xcf7ff on isa0
 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
 fdc0: cannot reserve interrupt line
 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
 sio0: configured irq4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
 sio0: port may not be enabled
 sio0: configured irq4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
 sio0: port may not be enabled
 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
 sio0: type 16550A
 sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
 sio1: port may not be enabled
 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on  
 isa0
 RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1872271506 Hz quality 800
 Timecounters ticket every 1.000 msec
 hptrr: no controller detected
 md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80bc6c08
 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
 
 -- END SCREEN CAPTURE --
 
 
 My next step is to re-roll the latest CVSUP'd sources from the 7.1  
 tree into a make release on a different (working) amd64 system. I'd  
 like to see what the latest source will get me but I'm not optimistic  
 at this point.
 
 Question: should I try the i386 build to see if there are any  
 differences? I really need to run amd64 but I am open to trying i386  
 if it would help get to the bottom of this.