i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)

[Mars G. Miro]

Hiya!

>>
>> I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and
>> 6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006).

>> booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but
>> doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet.

>> Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then hang)


I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and
certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the HD
to LBA instead of Auto or CHS.

Try this and report back ;-)



cheers
mars