> I have just received a Supermicro PIIIDM3 motherboard and have not been
> successful getting FreeBSD to boot on it (I've tried 3.4-RELEASE and
> several flavors of 4.0-current). Very early on in the boot (following
> the 10-second countdown) it prints out the opening message (copyright,
> I believe) and then immediately reboots. This motherboard has the new
> Intel 840 chipset, an AGP Pro slot, 4 32-bit PCI slots and 2 64-bit PCI
> slots. It is a dual CPU board however I only have a single 533MHz PIII
> installed.
>
> I'm not certain on what is the best procedure to proceed with attemting
> to further debug this. Any/all suggestions will be gratefully received.
First step would be to boot with a serial console and -v, so that you can
narrow down the point at which it's dying. After that you'll probably
need to apply some printf-style debugging. At a guess, I'd be worried
about some of the BIOS probing and calls that go on at around that stage,
as well as the memory probes. More data would give us a better idea, of
course.
If anyone in the SF Bay area has one of these boards they could lend for
a few days, I could probably help narrow this down fairly quickly.
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