Re: Hang on Boot (still)

[Lucas Reddinger]

:D

I booted the two floppies again. I tried what you said. hw.eisa_slots=0.
It got farther this time. I got a full dmesg. However, it was followed by
this:

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x7
fault code= supervisor read, page not present
instructor pointer= 0x8:0xc01f0cc9
stack pointer = 0x10:0xcf2a3788
frame pointer = 0x10:0xcf2a3794
code segment  = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
  = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags  = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
current process   = 1 (sysinstall)
trap number   = 12
panic: page fault

Doing a hw.eisa_slots=1 resulted in the same problem. So I decided to
try a 5.0-RELEASE CD. I tried hw.eisa_slots=0, which resulted in the
same crappy error I always got with 5.0-R. Then I remembered that ACPI
wasn't disabled in 5.0-R by default. so I used the hint and disabled it. I
got a lot farther, but it eventually hung with a message like cbb0: Card
not supported, then it would reboot itself after a few seconds. So I
decided to try a few other hints. It ended up that this combination of
variables on my 5.0-RELEASE would get me booted and into sysinstall:

hw.eisa_slots=0
hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
hint.pcic.0.disabled=1

So, disabling pcic0 did the trick. Then, I decided to go back to my
snapshot and try this. However, I got the same page fault as described
above. So what happened between 5.0-R and -C? I'll get my 5.0-R installed,
and then I'll try to make world.

Lucas Reddinger

 On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Lucas Reddinger wrote:
 The one alternative would be to compile a stripped kernel on another
 machine, and install off of it. I did this, but I do not have enough
 knowledge of the 5.x kernel/modules to be able to do this myself. If
 someone could give me some help with this instead, it would be greatly
 appriciated.

 Try setting this from the loader

 hw.eisa_slots=0

 (or 1).

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Hang on Boot (still)

[Lucas Reddinger]

I am attempting this with the latest snapshot that I could get. I am doing
this off the kern and mfsroot floppies. This is (again) on a Dell Inspiron
2650 laptop. I boot the two floppies, and I get this:

...regular kernel boot messages...
pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: multimedia, audio at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
pci0: simple comms at device 31.6 (no driver attached)

Then it hangs. I have to reboot. I tried doing:
set hint.pci.0.disabled=1
set hint.pci.1.disabled=1
set hint.pcic.0.disabled=1
set hint.pcic.1.disabled=1
set hint.eisa.0.disabled=1
set hint.eisa.1.disabled=1

None make a difference. Also, ACPI is disabled by default.

Now, for the platform information.
To get this to boot 4.x successfully, eisa must be disabled. So, normally
on a 4.x install, I would do 'boot -c', then at the 'conf' prompt, I
would disable eisa support by typing 'eisa 0'. Essentially, I think If I
could do this, I'd also get 5.0 to boot. However, the hints method is NOT
working for disabling eisa (unless I do not quite understand how to do
it).
Everything works great under 4.x, as long as eisa is disabled. If it is
not, it will not boot (just like this).

The one alternative would be to compile a stripped kernel on another
machine, and install off of it. I did this, but I do not have enough
knowledge of the 5.x kernel/modules to be able to do this myself. If
someone could give me some help with this instead, it would be greatly
appriciated.

Thanks,
Lucas Reddinger



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5.0 Install Kernel

[Lucas Reddinger]

I hope this is okay.. I needed to cross post this for more exposure.

Apparently, I need to disable eisa support to successfully boot a kernel
on my Dell Inspiron 2650.

In 4.x, I would do a `boot -c` followed by `eisa 0`.

What about FreeBSD 5.0? I tried `set hint.eisa.0.disabled=1` at the stage
3 boot prompt. It didn't seem to work. Any other ideas?

I _really_ need the ACPI support. _Any_ help is appriciated.

Thanks in advance,
Lucas



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