freebsd on Intel s5000pal - kernel reboots the system

[Alexander Moisseev]

On 18.04.2017 12:44, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 01:28:33PM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I need to install FreBSD on an Intel system with s5000pal mainboard. The
>> problem is, that on the kernel loading stage, FreeBSD reboots the
>> server. Like, always and silently, without trapping. I have plugged out
>> all of the discrete PCI controllers, leaving only onboard ones. Still
>> reboots. I was suspecting this is some kind of hardware problem, so I
>> ran the memtest (no errors for two hours) and I've even switched the
>> server (I have two identical ones). New server reboots too. So, looks
>> like it's some kind of FreeBSD issue. I've updated the BIOS on both,
>> tried to boot without ACPI - and this doesn't help (and without ACPI
>> FreeBSD refuses to even start to load kernel).
> You did not provide any information about your issue. It is not known
> even whether the loader breaks for you, or a kernel starts booting and
> failing.
> 
> Ideally, you would use serial console and provide the log of everything
> printed on it, before the reboot.
> 
> What kind of boot do you use, legacy BIOS or EFI ?  What version of
> FreeBSD ?
> 

I had exactly the same issue with s5000pal after updating from 10.3-RELEASE-p4 to 11-RELEASE amd64.
The FreeBSD 11 installer cannot boot as well. I used legacy BIOS (I believe s5000pal doesn't support EFI).

10.3-RELEASE and previous FreeBSD versions worked well on s5000pal.