>Number: 146446
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: FreeBSD 8.0 installation hangs at an early stage complaining
>of interrupt problem
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon May 10 02:10:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeffrey L. Johnson
>Release: FreeBSD 8.0 DVD
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
Tyan 2462 motherboard with 2 ea 32b AMD Athlon MP 1.2 MHz CPUs and 1GB of RAM
(i386)
>Description:
Dear FreeBSD maintainers:
I want to switch to FreeBSD 8.0 as my primary OS, but installation crashes
uniformly. As my system is a rather plain desktop configuration, my problem
may possibly affect many potential FreeBSD users.
My system is based on a Tyan 2462 motherboard from 2002 with 2 each 32b AMD
Athlon MP 1.2 MHz CPUs and 1GB of RAM. I run Solaris on one HDD and Windows XP
on another. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.0 from DVD on a third drive.
The following is a brief description of my hardware:
Attached hardware:
USB:
H-P DeskJet 845c
Plustek Optic Film 7200i film-strip/slide scanner
Epson Perfection 1250 flatbed scanner
HDDs:
Seagate 160GB ATI
Seagate 200GB ATI
Seagate 80GB SCSI - not operational, apparent configuration problem
Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM (target of FreeBSD installation)
floppy drive
Video adapters:
Installed
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP)
ATI Rage XL built into the motherboard
On hand:
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI)
Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP)
PCI:
4-port USB
Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 audio
Early in the install process (Sysinstall menu is never reached), a menu
appears, headed by "Welcome to FreeBSD!". The default choice is "Boot
FreeBSD." No matter which choice I make, the result is the same: splash
screen messages go by, including those related to hardware detection. Then the
message "run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after [120,180,240,...]
seconds for xpt_config" flashes by once per minute. Then the following
message appears and stays for the remainder of the minute:
"<<<Dump Card State Ends>>>
(probe[0,1,...]:ahc0:0:[1,2...]:0): SCB 0x[f8,...] - timed out
sg[0] - Addr {0x25444a0,...] : Length 36
(probe [0,1,...] :ahc):0:[1,2...]): SCB 248: Immediate reset. Flags
=0x620/Other SCB Timeout.
(probe [0,1,...] :ahc):0:[1,2...]): no longer in timeout, status = 25b/No other
SCB worth waiting for.
ahc0: Issued channel A Bus reset. 12SCBs aborted
Infinite interrupt loop, INTSTAT = 0ahc0: Timedout SCBs already complete.
Interrupts may not be functioning."
(The cyclical increments denoted by the progressions [m,n...] are actually
somewhat irregular.)
Even after several hours, Free BSD installation never gets beyond this point
(before I ever come to making choices for disk drives and slices.) Other
FreeBSD and PC-BSD 8.0 install CDs all fail in the same manner.
8.0 successfully installed on the same system a couple months ago, but that
installation was removed. At the time I was using the following video
adapters: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI) and Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP),
whereas now I am using an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP) and the ATI Rage XL
built into the motherboard. Some configuration settings may have been changed
in the system setup ROM (accessible at boot-time), but I haven't found the
culprit.
Suggestions on how to proceed would be much appreciated.
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt OS install on same hardware with any v. 8.0 Free/PC-BSD CD/DVD.
>Fix:
Possibly switch back to the Nvidia AGP video adapter from the ATI AGP video
adapter
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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