Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-12-05 Thread Axel Wintermann
I have the same problem as upgrading FreeBSD 10.0=Freebsd 10.1. I'd rolled
back Freebsd 10.0



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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-10-07 Thread Mike.
On 10/5/2014 at 1:57 AM Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:

|On 01.10.2014 02:02, Mike. wrote:
| On 9/30/2014 at 7:25 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
| 
| 
| |[snip]
| |Try the 271146,
| |[snip]
|  =
|
|This might be related with r271207.
|Can you try r271206 (or any recent HEAD with reverted r271207) ?
|
 =

Thanks for the reply.

Apologies for the delay in responding, I've been off the grid since
last Thursday.


I tried r271206 and r271207.  They both worked.   The boot sequence
progressed up to and including the login prompt.


If there's anything else you'd like me to try, let me know.


Thanks,
Mike


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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-10-06 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Alexander,

On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:57:13 +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote
 On 01.10.2014 02:02, Mike. wrote:
  On 9/30/2014 at 7:25 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
  
  
  |[snip]
  |Try the 271146,
  |[snip]
   =
 
 This might be related with r271207.
 Can you try r271206 (or any recent HEAD with reverted r271207) ?

Yes, it actually boots with head and ahci.[c|h] from r271206, so we
can safely assume r271207 (the dev-ch change) is not working on
some hardware.

Mike, can you please confirm, just to be sure?

Now, in case Mike (or anyone with the same problem) confirms, what
can we do to have it fixed? Thank you.

BR,

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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-10-04 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
On 01.10.2014 02:02, Mike. wrote:
 On 9/30/2014 at 7:25 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
 
 
 |[snip]
 |Try the 271146,
 |[snip]
  =

This might be related with r271207.
Can you try r271206 (or any recent HEAD with reverted r271207) ?

 
 
 I installed the 10.0 release CD.
 
 Then (after installing pkg, svn, etc.):
 
 
 cd /usr/src
 
 svn update -r271146
 
 make buildkernel
 
 make installkernel
 
 reboot
 
 
 I got to the login prompt, so it did not exhibit the looping issue
 I've experienced.
 
 /usr/src/UPDATING shows  20140708 p7  as the latest patch for the
 source.
 
 dmesg (with boot -v) follows:
 (note: when I boot 11.0-current with boot -v, the looping begins
 right after the place where the GEOM: new disk cd0 line appears in
 the dmesg below)
 
 
 
 
 Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
 Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
 1994
   The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
 FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0 r271146: Tue Sep 30 16:38:12 EDT 2014
 root@a31pf:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
 FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
 Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc1678000.
 Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 1698592154 Hz
 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1698.59-MHz 686-class
 CPU)
   Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf24  Family = 0xf  Model =
 0x2  Stepping = 4
   Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PG
 E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM
 
 Instruction TLB: 4 KB, 2 MB or 4 MB pages, fully associative, 64
 entries
 Data TLB: 4 KB or 4 MB pages, fully associative, 64 entries
 1st-level data cache: 8 KB, 4-way set associative, sectored cache, 64
 byte line size
 Trace cache: 12K-uops, 8-way set associative
 2nd-level cache: 512 KB, 8-way set associative, sectored cache, 64
 byte line size
 real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB)
 Physical memory chunk(s):
 0x1000 - 0x0009dfff, 643072 bytes (157 pages)
 0x0010 - 0x003f, 3145728 bytes (768 pages)
 0x01826000 - 0x3ee0efff, 1029607424 bytes (251369
 pages)
 avail memory = 1029230592 (981 MB)
 XEN: CPU 0 has VCPU ID 4294967295
 bios32: Found BIOS32 Service Directory header at 0xc00f7030
 bios32: Entry = 0xfd7e0 (c00fd7e0)  Rev = 0  Len = 1
 pcibios: PCI BIOS entry at 0xfd770+0x18e
 pnpbios: Found PnP BIOS data at 0xc00f7090
 pnpbios: Entry = f:9d76  Rev = 1.0
 pnpbios: Event flag at 4b4
 Other BIOS signatures found:
 ULE: setup cpu 0
 wlan: 802.11 Link Layer
 snd_unit_init() u=0x00ff8000 [512] d=0x7c00 [32]
 c=0x03ff [1024]
 feeder_register: snd_unit=-1 snd_maxautovchans=16 latency=5
 feeder_rate_min=1 feeder_rate_max=2016000 feeder_rate_round=25
 Hardware, VIA Nehemiah Padlock RNG: VIA Padlock RNG not present
 Hardware, Intel IvyBridge+ RNG: RDRAND is not present
 kbd: new array size 4
 kbd1 at kbdmux0
 mem: memory
 Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
 nfslock: pseudo-device
 null: null device, zero device
 Falling back to Software, Yarrow random adaptor
 random: Software, Yarrow initialized
 VESA: INT 0x10 vector 0xc000:0x206c
 VESA: information block
    56 45 53 41 00 02 00 01 00 01 01 00 00 00 22 00
 0010   00 01 ff 03 00 01 19 01 00 01 2f 01 00 01 34 01
 0020   00 01 82 01 0d 01 0e 01 0f 01 20 01 92 01 93 01
 0030   94 01 95 01 96 01 a2 01 a3 01 a4 01 a5 01 a6 01
 0040   b2 01 b3 01 b4 01 b5 01 b6 01 c2 01 c3 01 c4 01
 0050   c5 01 c6 01 00 01 83 01 84 01 85 01 86 01 01 01
 0060   10 01 11 01 12 01 21 01 03 01 13 01 14 01 15 01
 0070   22 01 05 01 16 01 17 01 18 01 23 01 07 01 19 01
 0080   1a 01 1b 01 24 01 40 01 41 01 42 01 43 01 44 01
 0090   72 01 73 01 74 01 75 01 76 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00
 00a0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00b0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00c0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00d0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00e0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00f0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0100   41 54 49 20 4d 4f 42 49 4c 49 54 59 20 52 41 44
 0110   45 4f 4e 20 37 35 30 30 00 41 54 49 20 54 65 63
 0120   68 6e 6f 6c 6f 67 69 65 73 20 49 6e 63 2e 00 50
 0130   37 20 20 00 30 31 2e 30 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0140   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0150   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0160   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0170   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0180   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0190   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 01a0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 01b0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 01c0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 01d0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 01e0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread Mike.
On 9/29/2014 at 11:04 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:

|This encoded message has been converted to an attachment.
|
|Hi Mike,
|
|On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote
[...]
|So that should put a time bracket on the issue,
|roughly the first half of 2014.
|
|can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank
|you.
 =

There doesn't seem to be much, if any, interest on the part of the
FreeBSD developers in fixing this recently-introduced issue with
booting up FreeBSD.

Since I experience the problem only on the one notebook of mine, I'll
just re-purpose that notebook for OpenBSD and try to find another old
notebook that works with FreeBSD.  Seems like the path of least
resistance for me




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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread Garrett Cooper

 On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:44, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote:
 
 On 9/29/2014 at 11:04 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
 
 |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment.
 |
 |Hi Mike,
 |
 |On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote
 [...]
 |So that should put a time bracket on the issue, 
 |roughly the first half of 2014.
 |
 |can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank
 |you.
 =
 
 There doesn't seem to be much, if any, interest on the part of the
 FreeBSD developers in fixing this recently-introduced issue with
 booting up FreeBSD.  
 
 Since I experience the problem only on the one notebook of mine, I'll
 just re-purpose that notebook for OpenBSD and try to find another old
 notebook that works with FreeBSD.  Seems like the path of least
 resistance for me

Did you boot with boot -d, using a stripped down kernel, and without SMP like I 
suggested in another post?

Thanks!
-Garrett
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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread Mike.
On 9/30/2014 at 9:57 AM Garrett Cooper wrote:


|Did you boot with boot -d, using a stripped down kernel, 
|and without SMP like I suggested in another post?
 =

Unfortunately, this is the first message of yours that I've seen on
this topic.  I even checked the mailing list archives
(
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-September/auth
or.html )
and I did not see any other message from you.

Can you resend it?

(I just tried boot -d and found myself in strange territory, a
debugger?)

thx.







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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Mike,

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:44:11 -0400, Mike. wrote
 On 9/29/2014 at 11:04 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
 
 |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment.
 |
 |Hi Mike,
 |
 |On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote
 [...]
 |So that should put a time bracket on the issue,
 |roughly the first half of 2014.
 |
 |can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank
 |you.
  =
 
 There doesn't seem to be much, if any, interest on the part of the
 FreeBSD developers in fixing this recently-introduced issue with
 booting up FreeBSD.

The glass is half full. Always.

Did you get it to boot with 271146 as I suggested? This would really
help and see if we are hitting the same issue or not.

 Since I experience the problem only on the one notebook of mine, I'll
 just re-purpose that notebook for OpenBSD and try to find another old
 notebook that works with FreeBSD.  Seems like the path of least
 resistance for me

C'mon, don't give up now. Try the 271146, I'm trying to find out where
it exactly loops. I've done some testing and might be it'AHCI actually.

Warner Losh (the maintainer) sent at least 3 messages about this, he's
very cooperative I think.

I'll try the no-SMP thing now just to see how it works.

BR,

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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread Garrett Cooper

 On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:17, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote:
 
 On 9/30/2014 at 9:57 AM Garrett Cooper wrote:
 
 
 |Did you boot with boot -d, using a stripped down kernel, 
 |and without SMP like I suggested in another post?
 =
 
 Unfortunately, this is the first message of yours that I've seen on
 this topic.  I even checked the mailing list archives
 (
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-September/auth
 or.html )
 and I did not see any other message from you.
 
 Can you resend it?

Look for the recent thread titled what do you use for kernel debugging. It 
sounds like both you an Jose have run into similar problems recently with 
mobile hardware.

 (I just tried boot -d and found myself in strange territory, a
 debugger?)

Ah, crud. I meant boot -v (verbose boot) -- sorry bout that :).
Cheers!
-Garrett

PS I would help a bit if I still had netbook hardware and the time to help, but 
I don't have the former and seem to be short on the latter recently.
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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Garrett,

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:57:19 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote
  On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:44, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote:
  
  On 9/29/2014 at 11:04 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
  
  |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment.
  |
  |Hi Mike,
  |
  |On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote
  [...]
  |So that should put a time bracket on the issue, 
  |roughly the first half of 2014.
  |
  |can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank
  |you.
  =
  
  There doesn't seem to be much, if any, interest on the part of the
  FreeBSD developers in fixing this recently-introduced issue with
  booting up FreeBSD.  
  
  Since I experience the problem only on the one notebook of mine, I'll
  just re-purpose that notebook for OpenBSD and try to find another old
  notebook that works with FreeBSD.  Seems like the path of least
  resistance for me
 
 Did you boot with boot -d, using a stripped down kernel, and without 
 SMP like I suggested in another post?

This suggestion was address to me, not Mike. :)

I tried, as you suggested, I can reach vfs_mountroot if I don't
include AHCI, so it must be that.

Now I'm trying to take out SMP and add extra debugging things here and
there.

I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I do it anyway. In the worst case I'm
learning something.

Thank you for your suggestions!

BR,

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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread Garrett Cooper

 On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:31, José Pérez Arauzo f...@aoek.com wrote:
 
 Hi Garrett,
 
 On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:57:19 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote
 On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:44, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote:
 
 On 9/29/2014 at 11:04 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:
 
 |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment.
 |
 |Hi Mike,
 |
 |On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote
 [...]
 |So that should put a time bracket on the issue, 
 |roughly the first half of 2014.
 |
 |can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank
 |you.
 =
 
 There doesn't seem to be much, if any, interest on the part of the
 FreeBSD developers in fixing this recently-introduced issue with
 booting up FreeBSD.  
 
 Since I experience the problem only on the one notebook of mine, I'll
 just re-purpose that notebook for OpenBSD and try to find another old
 notebook that works with FreeBSD.  Seems like the path of least
 resistance for me
 
 Did you boot with boot -d, using a stripped down kernel, and without 
 SMP like I suggested in another post?
 
 This suggestion was address to me, not Mike. :)
 
 I tried, as you suggested, I can reach vfs_mountroot if I don't
 include AHCI, so it must be that.
 
 Now I'm trying to take out SMP and add extra debugging things here and
 there.

Another suggestion might be to compile the driver as a module or vice versa -- 
what happens then?

Why this is slightly more interesting sometimes is that compiling drivers into 
the kernel statically allows compilers to optimize out code, which may or may 
not positively effect driver runtime (performance and functionality wise). It 
shouldn't affect driver load order though; that should be deterministic as long 
as the drivers and hardware (firmware and configuration) don't change.

 I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I do it anyway. In the worst case I'm
 learning something.
 
 Thank you for your suggestions!

NP!
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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-30 Thread Mike.
On 9/30/2014 at 7:25 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:


|[snip]
|Try the 271146,
|[snip]
 =


I installed the 10.0 release CD.

Then (after installing pkg, svn, etc.):


cd /usr/src

svn update -r271146

make buildkernel

make installkernel

reboot


I got to the login prompt, so it did not exhibit the looping issue
I've experienced.

/usr/src/UPDATING shows  20140708 p7  as the latest patch for the
source.

dmesg (with boot -v) follows:
(note: when I boot 11.0-current with boot -v, the looping begins
right after the place where the GEOM: new disk cd0 line appears in
the dmesg below)




Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0 r271146: Tue Sep 30 16:38:12 EDT 2014
root@a31pf:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc1678000.
Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 1698592154 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1698.59-MHz 686-class
CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf24  Family = 0xf  Model =
0x2  Stepping = 4
  Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PG
E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM

Instruction TLB: 4 KB, 2 MB or 4 MB pages, fully associative, 64
entries
Data TLB: 4 KB or 4 MB pages, fully associative, 64 entries
1st-level data cache: 8 KB, 4-way set associative, sectored cache, 64
byte line size
Trace cache: 12K-uops, 8-way set associative
2nd-level cache: 512 KB, 8-way set associative, sectored cache, 64
byte line size
real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x1000 - 0x0009dfff, 643072 bytes (157 pages)
0x0010 - 0x003f, 3145728 bytes (768 pages)
0x01826000 - 0x3ee0efff, 1029607424 bytes (251369
pages)
avail memory = 1029230592 (981 MB)
XEN: CPU 0 has VCPU ID 4294967295
bios32: Found BIOS32 Service Directory header at 0xc00f7030
bios32: Entry = 0xfd7e0 (c00fd7e0)  Rev = 0  Len = 1
pcibios: PCI BIOS entry at 0xfd770+0x18e
pnpbios: Found PnP BIOS data at 0xc00f7090
pnpbios: Entry = f:9d76  Rev = 1.0
pnpbios: Event flag at 4b4
Other BIOS signatures found:
ULE: setup cpu 0
wlan: 802.11 Link Layer
snd_unit_init() u=0x00ff8000 [512] d=0x7c00 [32]
c=0x03ff [1024]
feeder_register: snd_unit=-1 snd_maxautovchans=16 latency=5
feeder_rate_min=1 feeder_rate_max=2016000 feeder_rate_round=25
Hardware, VIA Nehemiah Padlock RNG: VIA Padlock RNG not present
Hardware, Intel IvyBridge+ RNG: RDRAND is not present
kbd: new array size 4
kbd1 at kbdmux0
mem: memory
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
nfslock: pseudo-device
null: null device, zero device
Falling back to Software, Yarrow random adaptor
random: Software, Yarrow initialized
VESA: INT 0x10 vector 0xc000:0x206c
VESA: information block
   56 45 53 41 00 02 00 01 00 01 01 00 00 00 22 00
0010   00 01 ff 03 00 01 19 01 00 01 2f 01 00 01 34 01
0020   00 01 82 01 0d 01 0e 01 0f 01 20 01 92 01 93 01
0030   94 01 95 01 96 01 a2 01 a3 01 a4 01 a5 01 a6 01
0040   b2 01 b3 01 b4 01 b5 01 b6 01 c2 01 c3 01 c4 01
0050   c5 01 c6 01 00 01 83 01 84 01 85 01 86 01 01 01
0060   10 01 11 01 12 01 21 01 03 01 13 01 14 01 15 01
0070   22 01 05 01 16 01 17 01 18 01 23 01 07 01 19 01
0080   1a 01 1b 01 24 01 40 01 41 01 42 01 43 01 44 01
0090   72 01 73 01 74 01 75 01 76 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00
00a0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00b0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00c0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00d0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00e0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00f0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0100   41 54 49 20 4d 4f 42 49 4c 49 54 59 20 52 41 44
0110   45 4f 4e 20 37 35 30 30 00 41 54 49 20 54 65 63
0120   68 6e 6f 6c 6f 67 69 65 73 20 49 6e 63 2e 00 50
0130   37 20 20 00 30 31 2e 30 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0140   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0150   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0160   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0170   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0180   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0190   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01a0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01b0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01c0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01d0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01e0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01f0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
VESA: 60 mode(s) found
VESA: v2.0, 65472k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xe3ee6022 (122)
VESA: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
VESA: ATI Technologies Inc. P7   01.00
io: I/O
hpt27xx: RocketRAID 27xx 

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/29/2014 at 2:15 AM José Pérez Arauzo wrote:

|This encoded message has been converted to an attachment.
|
|Hi Mike,
|It looks like we are hitting the same problem. If we find a
|third person with the same issue we can fund a club. :)

|Interesting to note:
| 1) we both run FBSD on small netbooks which usually get
|  equipped with crappy ^D^D^D^D^D^D^D cheap hardware.
| 2) yours seems to be an Intel-only box, mine is an AMD-only,
|  so the problem is not there (I mean, it's not the graphic
|  chip).
| 3) we both have an Atheros wifi, whose driver has been updated
|  recently, maybe this is the issue?

The notebook in question is a circa-2002 IBM Thinkpad A31p (of the
workstation replacement genre of the day).  If you're curious,
here's more info on it:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ibm-thinkpad-a31p,review-42.html

The Atheros WiFi is a SMC PC-Card adapter.   I can unplug it to see
if it has any effect on the issue.  I'll do that later today when the
compiling finishes.  :)

[snip]


|I will keep you posted, in the meantime you can try and
| boot your pc from 271146, it works for me.

Once I figure out how to do that, I'll give it a try.  :)


Meanwhile, make buildkernel with 270327 should finish compiling in a
few hours

Thanks.
Mike.



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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote:

|The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur
|if you revert that?
|
 =

I downloaded 11-current via svn, then copied over the pre-270327
version of ata_xpt.c.

make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
reboot


The looping still occurs.  I haven't checked it character for
character, but it the display looks to have the same or very similar
information during the looping as the two pictures I posted
yesterday.


Thanks.

Mike.


btw, the Atheros WiFi card was removed, with no change in outcome. 

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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.


On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote:

|The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur
|if you revert that?
|
|Regards
|Steve
 =


Another data point.  I just downloaded the image:

FreeBSD-10.1-BETA3-i386-disc1

The looping occurs also with that CD.

Perhaps this is not caused by a recent change?



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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote:

|The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur
|if you revert that?
|
|Regards
|Steve
 =


Yet another data point (actually two data points).  I had an older
STABLE image sitting around.

FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-i386-20140712-r268571-disc1

The looping occurs also with that CD.


And, finally, the looping does not occur with 10.0-RELEASE.  This
release seems to be able to recover from the timeouts.

So that should put a time bracket on the issue, roughly the first
half of 2014.







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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-29 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Mike,

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote
[...]
 So that should put a time bracket on the issue, roughly the first
 half of 2014.

can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank you.

BR,

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Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Mike.


I'm starting to look at FreeBSD 11-current to see what's coming soon.
 I have an older notebook that I use for test environments for
purposes such as this.  Unfortunately, the notebook won't boot up
from the install CD, there's a loop it cannot seem to get out of.  



Details are:

- The install CD was made from this image:
   FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140918-r271779-disc1

- The dmesg for the notebook is at the end of this message.  The
dmesg was captured with FreeBSD 10.0.  In the dmesg, you can see the
following lines:

(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00
00 00 00
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
xpt_config
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00
00 00 00
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked


which, while slowing down the boot process drastically, still allowed
the boot process to run to successful completion.


- When I try to boot using the FreeBSD 11-current install CD, that
loop seems to go on ad infinitum, or at least for the 5 minutes until
I gave up.   I cannot post a dmesg from that boot-up because I never
got to a prompt.  However, I did take a couple of pictures of the
offending screens.  They are here:
 http://archive.mgm51.com/cache/fbsd-11-current-01.jpg
 http://archive.mgm51.com/cache/fbsd-11-current-02.jpg
The first image shows the start of the looping, and the second shows
the continuation.


While this notebook is used only for testing, it is important to me
in that aspect.  How can I get around this looping issue?

Please let me know if there's any additional info you need.

Thanks.





And now, the dmesg...

Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p8 #1 r271323: Wed Sep 10 20:25:45 EDT 2014
r...@a31pf.245l.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1698.60-MHz 686-class
CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf24  Family = 0xf  Model = 0x2
Stepping = 4
  Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM
real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB)
avail memory = 1029230592 (981 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
random: Software, Yarrow initialized
acpi0: IBM TP-1G on motherboard
acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on
acpi0
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 10, 3ff0 (3) failed
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
attimer0: AT timer port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on
acpi0
acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0
acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
agp0: Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge on hostb0
pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1
vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
0xe800-0xefff,0xd010-0xd010 irq 11 at device 0.0 on
pci1
vgapci0: Boot video device
uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port
0x1800-0x181f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0
usbus0 on uhci0
uhci1: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B port
0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
usbus1 on uhci1
uhci2: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C port
0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0
usbus2 on uhci2
pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2
cbb0: RF5C476 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x5000-0x5fff irq 11
at device 0.0 on pci2
cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0
pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0
cbb1: RF5C476 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x5010-0x50100fff irq 11
at device 0.1 on pci2
cardbus1: CardBus bus on cbb1
pccard1: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb1
pci2: serial bus, FireWire at device 0.2 (no driver attached)
fxp0: Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) Pro/100 VE Ethernet port 0x8000-0x803f
mem 0xd020-0xd0200fff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci2
miibus0: MII bus on fxp0
inphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface PHY 1 on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto,
auto-flow
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:9b:2c:d3:f6
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: ISA bus on isab0
atapci0: Intel ICH3 UDMA100 controller port

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Steven Hartland

The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur
if you revert that?

   Regards
   Steve

- Original Message - 
From: Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com



I'm starting to look at FreeBSD 11-current to see what's coming soon.
I have an older notebook that I use for test environments for
purposes such as this.  Unfortunately, the notebook won't boot up
from the install CD, there's a loop it cannot seem to get out of.  




Details are:

- The install CD was made from this image:
  FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140918-r271779-disc1

- The dmesg for the notebook is at the end of this message.  The
dmesg was captured with FreeBSD 10.0.  In the dmesg, you can see the
following lines:

(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00
00 00 00
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
xpt_config
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00
00 00 00
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked


which, while slowing down the boot process drastically, still allowed
the boot process to run to successful completion.


- When I try to boot using the FreeBSD 11-current install CD, that
loop seems to go on ad infinitum, or at least for the 5 minutes until
I gave up.   I cannot post a dmesg from that boot-up because I never
got to a prompt.  However, I did take a couple of pictures of the
offending screens.  They are here:
http://archive.mgm51.com/cache/fbsd-11-current-01.jpg
http://archive.mgm51.com/cache/fbsd-11-current-02.jpg
The first image shows the start of the looping, and the second shows
the continuation.


While this notebook is used only for testing, it is important to me
in that aspect.  How can I get around this looping issue?

Please let me know if there's any additional info you need.

Thanks.





And now, the dmesg...

Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p8 #1 r271323: Wed Sep 10 20:25:45 EDT 2014
   r...@a31pf.245l.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1698.60-MHz 686-class
CPU)
 Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf24  Family = 0xf  Model = 0x2
Stepping = 4
 Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM
real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB)
avail memory = 1029230592 (981 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
random: Software, Yarrow initialized
acpi0: IBM TP-1G on motherboard
acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on
acpi0
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 10, 3ff0 (3) failed
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
attimer0: AT timer port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on
acpi0
acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0
acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
agp0: Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge on hostb0
pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1
vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
0xe800-0xefff,0xd010-0xd010 irq 11 at device 0.0 on
pci1
vgapci0: Boot video device
uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port
0x1800-0x181f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0
usbus0 on uhci0
uhci1: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B port
0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
usbus1 on uhci1
uhci2: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C port
0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0
usbus2 on uhci2
pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2
cbb0: RF5C476 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x5000-0x5fff irq 11
at device 0.0 on pci2
cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0
pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0
cbb1: RF5C476 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x5010-0x50100fff irq 11
at device 0.1 on pci2
cardbus1: CardBus bus on cbb1
pccard1: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb1
pci2: serial bus, FireWire at device 0.2 (no driver attached)
fxp0: Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) Pro/100 VE Ethernet port 0x8000-0x803f
mem 0xd020-0xd0200fff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci2
miibus0: MII bus on fxp0
inphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface PHY 1 on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto,
auto-flow
fxp0: Ethernet address: 

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Mike.


On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote:

|The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur
|if you revert that?
|
=


OK, I'll download the 11-current source.

Then revert 270327
 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/cam/ata/ata_xpt.c?r1=270327;
r2=270326pathrev=270327

Recompile the system

And try to boot.


I'll post the results in a couple of days (full system compiles take
a while on this notebook).

(unless someone has a 11-current ISO snapshot from before 270327?)





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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Steven Hartland

You'll only need a new kernel and if you cut down to modules / drivers
you need then that shouldn't take too long.

   Regards
   Steve

- Original Message - 
From: Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com

To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current





On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote:

|The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur
|if you revert that?
|
=


OK, I'll download the 11-current source.

Then revert 270327
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/cam/ata/ata_xpt.c?r1=270327;
r2=270326pathrev=270327

Recompile the system

And try to boot.


I'll post the results in a couple of days (full system compiles take
a while on this notebook).

(unless someone has a 11-current ISO snapshot from before 270327?)





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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2014 at 6:25 PM Steven Hartland wrote:

|You'll only need a new kernel and if you cut down to modules /
drivers
|you need then that shouldn't take too long.
|
 =

Buildworld is running now.  So it will be running overnight, and
should be finished by the time I can get to it again tomorrow.

Thanks.

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Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread José Pérez Arauzo
Hi Mike,
it looks like we are hitting the same problem. If we find a third
person with the same issue we can fund a club. :)

Interesting to note:
1) we both run FBSD on small netbooks which usually get equipped
with crappy ^D^D^D^D^D^D^D cheap hardware.
2) yours seems to be an Intel-only box, mine is an AMD-only, so
the problem is not there (I mean, it's not the graphic chip).
3) we both have an Atheros wifi, whose driver has been updated
recently, maybe this is the issue?

As of now I suspect the problem is not related to AHCI because if
you remove it from the kernel you still end up in an enless loop
in some other driver.

Actually the latest device_attach loops forever. You might still
get some output from previous device probes complaining, notably USB,
especially if you plug something in, or AHCI --as we both report--.

I would like to debug the running kernel from another machine,
altought the suggestions I got so far (see thread about kernel
debugging in this same mailing list) are not encouraging.

I will keep you posted, in the meantime you can try and boot your
pc from 271146, it works for me.

BR,

On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:53:05 -0400, Mike. wrote
 I'm starting to look at FreeBSD 11-current to see what's coming soon.
  I have an older notebook that I use for test environments for
 purposes such as this.  Unfortunately, the notebook won't boot up
 from the install CD, there's a loop it cannot seem to get out of.
 
 Details are:
 
 - The install CD was made from this image:
FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140918-r271779-disc1
 
 - The dmesg for the notebook is at the end of this message.  The
 dmesg was captured with FreeBSD 10.0.  In the dmesg, you can see the
 following lines:
 
 (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00
 00 00 00
 (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
 (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked
 run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
 xpt_config
 (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00
 00 00 00
 (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
 (aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked
 
 which, while slowing down the boot process drastically, still allowed
 the boot process to run to successful completion.
 
 - When I try to boot using the FreeBSD 11-current install CD, that
 loop seems to go on ad infinitum, or at least for the 5 minutes until
 I gave up.   I cannot post a dmesg from that boot-up because I never
 got to a prompt.  However, I did take a couple of pictures of the
 offending screens.  They are here:
  http://archive.mgm51.com/cache/fbsd-11-current-01.jpg
  http://archive.mgm51.com/cache/fbsd-11-current-02.jpg
 The first image shows the start of the looping, and the second shows
 the continuation.
 
 While this notebook is used only for testing, it is important to me
 in that aspect.  How can I get around this looping issue?
 
 Please let me know if there's any additional info you need.
 
 Thanks.
 
 And now, the dmesg...
 
 Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
 Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
 1994
   The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
 FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p8 #1 r271323: Wed Sep 10 20:25:45 EDT 2014
 r...@a31pf.245l.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
 FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1698.60-MHz 686-class
 CPU)
   Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf24  Family = 0xf  Model = 0x2
 Stepping = 4
   Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,
 PGE, MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,
 TM real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB) avail memory = 1029230592 
 (981 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 random: Software, Yarrow initialized 
 acpi0: IBM TP-1G on motherboard acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: 
 GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
  acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 
 10, 3ff0 (3) failed cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 attimer0: AT 
 timer port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter i8254 frequency 
 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz 
 quality 100 atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on 
 acpi0 Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 Timecounter 
 ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: 24-bit 
 timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_lid0: 
 Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on 
 acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: 
 ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge on hostb0
 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1
 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
 0xe800-0xefff,0xd010-0xd010 irq 11 at device 0.0 on
 pci1
 vgapci0: Boot video device
 uhci0: