problems running freebsd 6.0+

[Tom Cruickshank]

Hello,
     Not a problem at all! Here is the info I get from a dmesg. This was
done using FreeBSD 5.4


Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005
    root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: \^O8\^O
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI>
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) (2004.56-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x681  Stepping = 1
 
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
  AMD Features=0xc0480000<MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory  = 1610547200 (1535 MB)
avail memory = 1568518144 (1495 MB)
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <Nvidia AWRDACPI> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Controller> mem 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff at device
0.0 on pci0
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 0.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 0.4 (no driver attached)
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 0.5 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xe5002000-0xe5002fff irq 22 at
device 2.0 on pci0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xe5003000-0xe5003fff irq 21 at
device 2.1 on pci0
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 2.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 8.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
fxp0: <Intel 82558 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xc000-0xc01f mem
0xe4000000-0xe40fffff,0xe0000000-0xe0000fff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci1
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:08:c7:b9:f6:5f
atapci0: <nVidia nForce2 UDMA133 controller> port
0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 9.0 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
pci2: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3
on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xd2000-0xd27ff,0xd0000-0xd17ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2004560508 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00CRA1/17.07W17> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master
UDMA100
acd0: CDROM <MATSHITA CR-594/YS0B> at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a

And yes I was using a generic kernel when using FreeBSD 6.0 and 6.1 The box
froze before I could even think of tweaking it.

Thanks for any assistance!

Tom Cruickshank



-----Original Message-----
From: Subhro Kar [mailto:subhro.kar at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:05 PM
To: Tom Cruickshank
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: problems running freebsd 6.0+

Tom Cruickshank wrote:
> Hello,

Hello Tom,

>     I'm hoping is the correct mailing list for this, if not, please feel
> free to direct me to a more appriopriate one.

You are on the correct mailing list :-).
> I have a box which I'm trying to run FreeBSD on. I can run FreeBSD 5.4 
> on it
> without any problems, but if I try run
> FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, at any point in time while the system is running
(could
> be on load up or when system is already loaded),
> the computer just *freezes*.  The only thing which can be done 
> afterwards is
> a cold reboot. I hav checked the /var/log/messages
> file and haven't been able to find anything wrong.
> 
> Hardware specs:
> 
> Motherboard: A7N8X-X

The information you have provided is not complete. We would be requiring 
more information to understand what is going wrong. For a start can you 
show us a copy of dmesg and your kernel config file (if you are not 
running a GENERIC kernel).

Thanks and Best Regards
Subhro

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