FreeBSD 5.4 RC3 failure on Gateway ALR 7200R.

[Doug White]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, marek gartrend wrote:

> I tried to load 5.4-RC3 (please redirect me to the correct list
> if this isn't the one) on a Gateway ALR 7200R, dual processor
> 400MHz Pentium II.
>
> The normal boot from the CD would not boot, stopping at the
> agp0: <Intel . . . > line.
>
> I booted to safe mode and installed from there.  When I boot
> it stops at:
>
>   agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440BX) host to PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>
> in safe bood mode, the next line is:
>
>   pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>
> If I boot with extra logging, it ends with:
>
>   agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440BX) host to PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>   agp0: Lazy allocation of 0x4000000 bytes rid 0x10 type 3 at 0
>   agp0: allocating GATT for aperture size of 64M
> [nothing more]
>
> I tried setting ACPI off (cause it was the only thing I know how to
> do) with:
>
>   hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
>
> in loader.conf (I also tried putting it in device.hints) but that made
> no difference.  Is this machine a no-go?

This is untested, but try this to disable the agp device at the loader
prompt:

set hint.agp.0.disabled="1"

Worst case you could boot with safe mode again and rebuild a kenrel
without the agp device.

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