booting on i915 + ICH6 SATA?

Chuck Tuffli chuck_tuffli at agilent.com
Fri Jun 10 07:32:30 PDT 2005


On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:37:29AM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> On 9 June 2005 19:37, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> > Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> >  > Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> >  >  > The 1.2.0-RELEASE won't boot on machine built on i915 + ICH6 SATA
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > Try the patch mentioned at
> > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2005-01/msg00189.html ,
> > > but you need to rebuild the kernel yourself for that.
> >
> > This patch should have helped if the problem is an interrupt storm from
> > the sata controller. I tested this against a plain ICH6 where as the
> > hardware you have uses an ICH6R. The patch (already included in 1.2)
> > supports both. Are there messages about 'livelock' when you use verbose
> > booting?
> 
> Well, there seem to be none, at least I can't "catch" any. 
> It stucks finally at isa_probe_children: probing for PnP devices.
> 

Can you do:

set console=comconsole
set boot_verbose=yes
boot

at the boot menu and then
capture what comes out the serial port with something like minicom?

-- 
Chuck Tuffli
Agilent Technologies





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