8.0-RELEASE install freezes

Wed May 12 14:15:28 UTC 2010

Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install 
7.3-RELEASE.  The install once again hung right around the time when the 
system would normally announce "Timecounters tick every xxx msec".

Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what 
might have changed between 6.x and 7.3 as it relates to the kernel 
bootstrapping process at this stage?  I am actually netbooting this 
install, so I have the ability to compile a custom kernel to troubleshoot 
this further.  I'd really like to install 8.0 on this hardware and get a 
few more years of life out of it.

Thanks,
Steve

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Steve Bernacki wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an ancient Pentium II 350Mhz system that I've used as a home firewall 
> for several years.  I decided to try to upgrade it from 6.1 to 8.0 today, but 
> I was unable to get the kernel to boot without freezing.  The point at which 
> it froze was:
>
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>
> Thinking it may be some ACPI related issue, I tried disabling ACPI in the 
> kernel and from the boot prompt, but still no joy.  I also tried fiddling 
> with the PnP BIOS settings with no luck.  Placing system into verbose logging 
> mode, it gets as far as printing out:
>
> Device configuration finished.
> procfs registered
>
> And then freezes, right before it normally displays the "Timecounters tick 
> every xxx msec" line.
>
> I have attached the full dmesg from the working 6.1 system.  I know it's a 
> shot in the dark, but does anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to what I 
> could do to try to get this thing to boot?  I've gotten many years of service 
> out of this system, but I'd still like to squeeze out a few more.  :)
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> === 6.1 dmesg ===
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2006 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 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:32:43 UTC 2006
>    root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (367.50-MHz 686-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x665  Stepping = 5
>  Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE3
> 6,MMX,FXSR>
> real memory  = 268369920 (255 MB)
> avail memory = 253128704 (241 MB)
> kbd1 at kbdmux0
> acpi0: <123456 AWRDACPI> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff,0x4000-0x4041,0x5000-0x500f on 
> acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xd0000000-0xd3ffffff 
> at device
> 0.0 on pci0
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 3.0 (no driver attached)
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 
> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf0
> 00-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 15 at 
> device 7
> .2 on pci0
> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> pci0: <bridge> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
> pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0
> pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
> fxp0: <Intel 82557 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xd000-0xd01f mem 
> 0xd9100000-0xd9100fff,0xd7
> 000000-0xd70fffff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci2
> miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
> nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:c9:1b:01:5c
> dpt0: <DPT Caching SCSI RAID Controller> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 
> 14.0 on p
> ci2
> dpt0: DPT PM2044W FW Rev. 07M1, 1 channel, 64 CCBs
> dpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> fxp1: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xe400-0xe43f mem 
> 0xd9301000-0xd9301fff,0xd9
> 000000-0xd90fffff irq 15 at device 12.0 on pci0
> miibus1: <MII bus> on fxp1
> inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
> inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> fxp1: Ethernet address: 00:50:bf:00:00:41
> fxp2: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xe800-0xe83f mem 
> 0xd9300000-0xd9300fff,0xd9
> 200000-0xd92fffff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
> miibus2: <MII bus> on fxp2
> inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus2
> inphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> fxp2: Ethernet address: 00:50:bf:00:00:42
> acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: [FAST]
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
> 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 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xcc000-0xccfff on isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> sio1: type 16550A
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 367501477 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> ad0: 76293MB <Seagate ST380011A 3.16> at ata0-master UDMA33
> da0 at dpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <WDIGTL WDE9150 ULTRA2 1.30> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 8727MB (17873039 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1112C)
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> nd6_setmtu0: new link MTU on tun0 (1158) is too small for IPv6
> fxp1: promiscuous mode enabled
> fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
> fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
> fxp0: link state changed to UP
>
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