can't boot MSI p6n-sli (nforce 650i) system

[Cameron]

Sorry about the repeat.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Cameron wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm unable to successfully boot FreeBSD 7.0R for amd64 on my MSI p6n-sli 
> motherboard (nvidia 650i chipset). I don't have a dmesg to show at the the 
> moment (though I
> may be able to get one). This is a quad core system
>
> Disabling apic doesn't help, in fact the boot process doesn't even get as far 
> when apic is disabled (it just gets stuck mounting md0 or something like 
> that).
> Disabling acpi seems to have the same result as disabling apic.
>
> It gets stuck right after it brings up the remaining 3 cores (seems to always 
> bring them up in the order of 3, 1, and 2 if that matters).
>
> Just before bringing up the cores it detects my LSI Logic SATA 150-4 raid 
> controller (I doubt the controller itself is the problem, maybe it's an issue 
> with the amd64
> version of this controller).
>
> Turning on verbosity doesn't really seem to tell me anything more other than 
> after the 3 remaining cores are brought up, I get a single line message along 
> the lines
> of:
>
> amr0: new geom (something very similiar to that).
>
> Where amr0 refers to the LSI Logic sata raid controller (obviously).
>
> Seems other people have had trouble with FreeBSD and the 650 chipset with the 
> nforce ide and/or sata controller. Interestingly if I reset the machine 
> without first
> powering down and attempt to boot Linux, the boot gets stuck and fails with 
> this message slowly repeated over and over:
> hda: interrupt lost
> (hda is the first primary IDE drive of course)
>
>
> This message ONLY happens if attempt to boot the FreeBSD 7.0R CD and simply 
> press the reset button (which seems to indicate it's not my raid controller). 
> I have not
> got this message on this system prior to this.
>
> Interestingly I tried NetBSD 4.0 a little ways back and it seemed to have 
> trouble readin the disk geomtry of the first primary IDE drive (I believe the 
> FreeBSD driver
> is based on the NetBSD driver or vice versa).
>
> Hope I've provided enough useful information (except a dmesg for now).
>
> Has anyone else had trouble with FreeBSD on nforce 650i based motherboards? 
> How about just my MSI p6n-sli board? Should I try FreeBSD for i386 to see if 
> that makes
> any difference?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Cameron
>
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