Re: Awkward booting issue
Mark wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get FreeBSD 9 amd64 to boot on my 1U server but am unsuccesful and am out of ideas. I tried to boot the iso from CD-ROM, I tried multiple USB memory sticks and I even tried to boot from hard discs, I'll explain this further below. Oddly enough every boot attempt fails. Right after the hard discs are recognised the system just sits there, silent, with no errors. The last Have you tried waiting a long long long time? I have a problem where the boot hangs but it does actually eventually boot. The most infomation I managed to get out of the system before I had to give up and revert to the previous config was that although Hz was configured as 1000, it was only ticking 19 times a second, so machine time was running about 50 slower than wallclock time. You might or not be experiencing the same issue. Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Awkward booting issue
(...snip...) Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any is causing the hang Yes, I considered this. But even after having disabled everything that's possible in the bios, the boot issue persists... Any more suggestions? I'd really like to get this solved, please... ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Awkward booting issue
On 03/28/12 06:40, Mark wrote: (...snip...) Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any is causing the hang Yes, I considered this. But even after having disabled everything that's possible in the bios, the boot issue persists... Any more suggestions? I'd really like to get this solved, please... ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If you have access to another FreeBSD machine, you could try compiling a minimal kernel (remove drivers that are unneeded, but also those that attach but are unnecessary) and booting from that kernel instead. Can you type characters onto the terminal after the boot hangs? If no, does capslocks change keyboard LEDs? Does 9-RELEASE boot? Or does no FreeBSD boot? Matt ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Awkward booting issue
Hi, I have been trying to get FreeBSD 9 amd64 to boot on my 1U server but am unsuccesful and am out of ideas. I tried to boot the iso from CD-ROM, I tried multiple USB memory sticks and I even tried to boot from hard discs, I'll explain this further below. Oddly enough every boot attempt fails. Right after the hard discs are recognised the system just sits there, silent, with no errors. The last messages I see tell me that three hard discs are found and the very last message is something like ada2: previously was known as ad14 and then... nothing happens. Verbose mode tells me nothing extra. So I tried to boot with ACPI disabled but this crashes the kernel and forces a reboot. I tried to disable the USB controller from the bios. I tried to boot from the hard discs in AHCI or IDE mode. I even unplugged everything from the motherboard except the essentials and 2G RAM. And I toggled and changed all BIOS options to no avail. The motherboard is an MSI MS-9656, the variant without IPMI. It has an Intel Q9600 processor. As a workaround I installed a third hard disc, installed Xen onto that with ArchLinux as dom0. Fortunately this does boot. So then I assigned the original two hard discs to the FreeBSD 9 VM. I gave the VM all available memory and three cores, and eth0 is bridged with the FreeBSD VM. After FreeBSD was installed I updated it to 9-STABLE, compiled the kernel (an unmodified GENERIC) and world. It still only boots when it's a virtual machine. If I try to boot the two hard discs (a mirrored zfs root) directly i.e. without Xen I still have exactly the same issues so I do see the bootloader and the first part of the boot process. It just gets stuck after the ada2 message. Here is the lspci output from Linux: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3200/3210 Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 3200/3210 Chipset Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge (rev 01) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Z7/Z9 (XG20 core) 04:03.0 IDE interface: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8213 IDE Controller I hope we can solve this problem so I can use FreeBSD natively. Thanks up front for helping me with this issue. Mark ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Awkward booting issue
On 03/27/12 09:22, Mark wrote: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Z7/Z9 (XG20 core) 04:03.0 IDE interface: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8213 IDE Controller Can you disable any of these in BIOS? Sometimes last message isn't the cause of the hang, I was having igb issues a while ago that ended with ada, but were caused by igb hanging shortly after attach. Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any is causing the hang Matt ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Awkward booting issue
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:30:30 -0700 matt sendtom...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/27/12 09:22, Mark wrote: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Z7/Z9 (XG20 core) 04:03.0 IDE interface: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8213 IDE Controller Can you disable any of these in BIOS? I can disable VGA with a jumper. It was disabled when I tried to boot. I'm not sure if this also disables the device's visibility but jumpering didn't help my problem. I can't disable the IDE interface. There seems to be no such option. Sometimes last message isn't the cause of the hang, I was having igb issues a while ago that ended with ada, but were caused by igb hanging shortly after attach. Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any is causing the hang Yes, I considered this. But even after having disabled everything that's possible in the bios, the boot issue persists... Mark ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
