System still hangs with "ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE"

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Scott Long wrote:
> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> 
>> Jon Noack wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/29/2004 6:02 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found out that booting with "Safe mode" (I knew there should be 
>>>> some use for it :-)) allows me to complete the process and get to 
>>>> sysinstall, in both 5.2-RELEASE & the -current snapshot from 24/1. 
>>>> But I tried to do the same from the loader prompt, to no avail. I 
>>>> used the following and then "boot" or "boot -v" but every attempt 
>>>> resulted in the traditional freeze.
>>>>
>>>> unset acpi_load
>>>> set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
>>>> set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1
>>>> set hw.ata.ata_dma=0
>>>> set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
>>>> set hw.ata.wc=0
>>>> set hw.eisa_slots=0
>>>>
>>>>  From what I can tell from the beastie.4th file, that is all that 
>>>> should be needed. Am I missing something?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You missed disabling apic:
>>> set hint.apic.0.disabled=1
>>
>>
>>
>> Bingo!
>> But I still can't see how it is being set via the loader's "Safe mode" 
>> option. Granted, my forth skills are lacking, but an inquiring mind 
>> needs to know :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Look for this segment in beastie.4th:
> 
> 
>         dup bootsafekey @ = if
>                 s" arch-i386" environment? if
>                         s" acpi_load" unsetenv
>                         s" 1" s" hint.acpi.0.disabled" setenv
>                         s" 1" s" loader.acpi_disabled_by_user" setenv
> ---->                   s" 1" s" hint.apic.0.disabled" setenv
>                 then
>                 s" 0" s" hw.ata.ata_dma" setenv
>                 s" 0" s" hw.ata.atapi_dma" setenv
>                 s" 0" s" hw.ata.wc" setenv
>                 s" 0" s" hw.eisa_slots" setenv
>                 0 boot
>         then

Darn, I was grepping through rev. 1.7.
Thanks!
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece