Greetings,
Ι have followed the guide about setting up the serial console: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html Ι have done this many times with no problems to other servers. For the first time I have a very strange problem in this particular server: After seeing some kernel messages, Ι see garbage characters, the machine hangs completely and only a hard reset can be done. The garbage characters appear just before the uart initilization. The last messages that I can see in the serial console: .... atapci2: <Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller> port 0xa800-0xa807,0xa480-0xa483,0xa400-0xa407,0xa080-0xa083,0xa000-0xa00f irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 atapci2: [ITHREAD] ata5: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2 ata5: [ITHREAD] ata6: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2 ata6: [ITHREAD] pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached) acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] ���������������������� ��?����� ���� ��?� ��?� ��?M����/���~��������/�����~���M����/�����~���M�������������{>�{>�?<����'�����'����?<�����������?u��u��������~^D ==> at this point the whole machine freezes! (notice that in the previous case the kernel hangs before any getty is initialized) If I disable the serial console in loader.conf and boot.config then I have normal boot: .... atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER] uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 uart1: [FILTER] .... Details: FreeBSD unix3.icte.uowm.gr 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 16 15:54:50 EET 2012 root@unix_2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/unix amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz (3391.51-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf4a Family = f Model = 4 Stepping = 10 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x649d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR> AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 8243875840 (7861 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <A M I OEMAPIC > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads Please help me... Regards, BB _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
