amd64 cannot boot on ASUS M2N-E

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:55:15PM +0200, Angelo Turetta wrote:
> The motherboard (BIOS rev.0203) is based on the nVidia MCP55 chipset, 
> AMD64 3500+ (2200 MHz), 1 GB DDR553, two SATA2 Maxtor 80GB, DVD-R Samsung.
> 
> Trying to boot the latest snapshot 6.1-STABLE-200608-amd64, the kernel 
> probes most peripherals (the Marvel gigabit-ethernet is not detected, 
> but that's a known item), but just after reporting acd0 it hangs solid 
> with the IDE led on. No panic, nor errors.
> It seems related to the detection of the disks (they are not reported). 
> I even left it in that state the whole night (just in case it was some 
> loooong timeout), but nothing.
> The -i386 image exhibits the same exact behaviour. Booting without ACPI 
> does not solve.
> 
> 7.0-CURRENT-200608-amd64 boots fine (no Marvel gbit, of course).
> 
> What should I try next?
> 
You need ata-chipset.c from -CURRENT, or wait for fix to be merged.

: revision 1.166
: date: 2006/07/24 10:44:50;  author: sos;  state: Exp;  lines: +47 -34
: Finally fix support for the newer MCP51/MCP55 nVidia chipsets.
: The register layout has changed since the original NV4 - sigh.
: Hotplug support has been fixed for all nVidia chipsets that supports it
: (including the MCP51/55).
: 
: HW donated by: Kingsley College


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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