Hi, all!
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.x / 8.x on an system with the following configuration:
- Motherboard: DFI LanParty DK 790FX-M2RS
- Memory: 4GB
- Video board: ATI Radeon 3870, by Saphire
Things I've tried so far:
- Installing FreeBSD 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0RC3 (all amd64): problem (show bellow).
- Installing FreeBSD 6.x (even 6.9) (amd64): works fine.
I also tryied installing FreeBSD 7.x i386: hangs at the very beginning of boot process (I don't remember exactly "where" anymore, but I can check it up if necessary).
Btw: I didn't try installing 6.x and updating, because I red on some foruns that the problem will get back as soon as I update the system.
The "problem" is:
- Booting with ACPI enabled: at the begin of boot messages (sortly after the processor's detais), the kernel starts showing a message (something about ACPI. It scrolls to fast to read) over and over - until it stops with "kernel panic" and some random flashing characters on the screen. I'm trying to write down this messages to post here.
- Booting with ACPI disabled: it boots up, but hangs on "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0". If I turn verbose boot on, I can see it actualy goes a bit futher and tryies to run "sysinstall".
I also tried to make a custom boot CD, with a custom kernel, removing support to all unnecessary devices (USB, parallel, serial, firewire, scsi, raid, etc), and with root at the CD-ROM itself (no md). It boots and drops on the "choose root filesystem to mount" prompt (this was intentional), but, when I try the "?" command to list root devices candidates, I get an empty list.
Scrolling the boot messages up a little, I could see what I think is the root of the issue: lots of messages like "unable to map interrupt", "unable to allocate interrupt", etc - about all devices. It detects my ATA and SATA controllers, but shows this message and does not detects any of devices (HDs, CDs) attached to them.
Today, I finally updated my motherboard's BIOS to the last version available at DFI's site. After that, I spend a morning playing with setup's parameters. I've even tried to allocate IRQs manually at setup, but the problems is always the same.
So far, I see no mean to make this board work with FreeBSD I think FreeBSD doesn't like this board's ACPI controller - but, without ACPI support, FreeBSD is unable to talk with this board about resurces (read "IRQ") allocation.
I had posted this issue at the Installation forum (there is a guy there with the same configuration and problem as I have: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6650)
Does somebody have any clue?
I was also wondering... what may have changed from 6.x to 7.x kernel's to cause this problem?
Thanks in advice!
Rudolph
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.x / 8.x on an system with the following configuration:
- Motherboard: DFI LanParty DK 790FX-M2RS
- Memory: 4GB
- Video board: ATI Radeon 3870, by Saphire
Things I've tried so far:
- Installing FreeBSD 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0RC3 (all amd64): problem (show bellow).
- Installing FreeBSD 6.x (even 6.9) (amd64): works fine.
I also tryied installing FreeBSD 7.x i386: hangs at the very beginning of boot process (I don't remember exactly "where" anymore, but I can check it up if necessary).
Btw: I didn't try installing 6.x and updating, because I red on some foruns that the problem will get back as soon as I update the system.
The "problem" is:
- Booting with ACPI enabled: at the begin of boot messages (sortly after the processor's detais), the kernel starts showing a message (something about ACPI. It scrolls to fast to read) over and over - until it stops with "kernel panic" and some random flashing characters on the screen. I'm trying to write down this messages to post here.
- Booting with ACPI disabled: it boots up, but hangs on "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0". If I turn verbose boot on, I can see it actualy goes a bit futher and tryies to run "sysinstall".
I also tried to make a custom boot CD, with a custom kernel, removing support to all unnecessary devices (USB, parallel, serial, firewire, scsi, raid, etc), and with root at the CD-ROM itself (no md). It boots and drops on the "choose root filesystem to mount" prompt (this was intentional), but, when I try the "?" command to list root devices candidates, I get an empty list.
Scrolling the boot messages up a little, I could see what I think is the root of the issue: lots of messages like "unable to map interrupt", "unable to allocate interrupt", etc - about all devices. It detects my ATA and SATA controllers, but shows this message and does not detects any of devices (HDs, CDs) attached to them.
Today, I finally updated my motherboard's BIOS to the last version available at DFI's site. After that, I spend a morning playing with setup's parameters. I've even tried to allocate IRQs manually at setup, but the problems is always the same.
So far, I see no mean to make this board work with FreeBSD I think FreeBSD doesn't like this board's ACPI controller - but, without ACPI support, FreeBSD is unable to talk with this board about resurces (read "IRQ") allocation.
I had posted this issue at the Installation forum (there is a guy there with the same configuration and problem as I have: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6650)
Does somebody have any clue?
I was also wondering... what may have changed from 6.x to 7.x kernel's to cause this problem?
Thanks in advice!
Rudolph