lockup booting 8.0-CURRENT-200811 snap image

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Chris Ruiz <yr.retarded at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 01:51:47 am Phil Oleson wrote:
>>> Hi, I've been trying to update my system to Current to try out the new
>>> usb stack etc..
>>> and have had some problems.   Initially I attempted to just do a cvsup,
>>> make buildworld,
>>> make kernel and had problems at the reboot.  Ended up having to use the
>>> livecd to swap
>>> out the kernel (loader was strangely hanging before I could type unload;
>>> boot kernel.old)
>>>
>>> Anyways,  I picked up a new drive to split my system up to have a
>>> working 7 & current.
>>> So, I downloaded the 200811 snap iso's for amd64 & i386 and tried to
>>> boot to them.
>>> Same/similar lockup happens.. now since this board currently doesn't
>>> have a serial port
>>> I've had to handtype what was left on the screen.. so hopefully it's
>>> enough for now.
>>>
>>> System: INTEL BLKDG35EC 775 G35  (flashed to the **ECG3510M.86A.0107**
>>> Bios Image)
>>>               INTEL C2Q Q9300 2.5G 775
>>>               2 gigs memory (messed up on original order and havnt fixed
>>> it yet)
>>>               using the built-in Intel video..
>>>
>>> so the i386 and the amd64 dvd image I booted with had the same stopping
>>> screen/output
>>> that I could see.. this is what I was able to get down from a verbose boot.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>    Initial Probe      0   10    N     0  3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12
>>>    Validation         0   10    N     0  3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12
>>>    After Disable    0  255   N     0  3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12
>>> acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on
>>> acpi0
>>> acpi_hpet0: vend: 0x8086 rev: 0x1 num: 2 hz: 14318180 opts: legacy_route
>>> 64-bit Timecounter "HPET" frequency 143181800 Hz quality 900
>>> acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
>>> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>>> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>>> pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0
>>> found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2980,  revid=0x03
>>>              domain=0, bus=0, slot=0, func=0
>>>              class=06-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
>>>              cmdreg=0x0006, statreg=0x2090, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
>>>              lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
>>> found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2982,  revid=0x03
>>>              domain=0, bus=0, slot=2, func=0
>>>              class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=1
>>>              cmdreg=0x0007, statreg=0x0090, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
>>>              lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
>>>              intpin=a,  irq=11
>>>              powerspec 2   supports D0 D3  current D0
>>>              MSI supports 1 message
>>>              map[10]: type Memory, range32, base 0x90200000, size 20,
>>> enabled
>>> --------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
>>>
>>> I'll see about installing the new install on the new drive starting at
>>> RELENG_7
>>> and updating to HEAD from there.. so any source changes will have to wait on
>>> completing that.. but anything would help.
>>
>> Try setting hw.pci.mcfg=0
>
> I also have an Intel board (INTEL DQ35JO) and had posted last month
> with a boot hang in the same place.   I recieved a quick reply from
> the list and setting hw.pci.mcg=0 fixed everything.
>
> Should this be marked as a known problem somewhere on the wiki?  It
> appears to happen to Intel boards with onboard graphics and I imagine
> that as more people migrate from 7.x to CURRENT that this will happen
> to more users.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Ruiz
>
>>
>> --
>> John Baldwin

This definitely should be listed in a FAQ, IMHO. Where would the best
place be for this?
-Garrett