can't boot where should I look?

[Dave Leimbach]

Dave Leimbach <leimySPAM2k at xxxxxxx> writes:

> David Rhodus <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Apr 13, 2004, at 10:38 PM, Dave Leimbach wrote:
> > 
> > > I've not been able to boot FreeBSD of any flavor or fork or OpenBSD
> > > on my
> > > hardware.
> > >
> > > I've got an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard.
> > >
> > > I'd like to take a shot at playing around with the kernel debugger
> > > and try to
> > > find out what's happening but as I've never done it before I am not
> > > sure
> > > what sort of stuff to look for.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > 
> > I take it that this is not the same board you've been having
> > problems with for the past several months  ?
> 
> Yeah. it's the same board..  The thing is it's really stable in linux and
> older versions of FreeBSD [like 5.1] this makes me think something in
> the later FreeBSD kernels isn't liking the board.
> 
> > 
> > Can you give a little more information about the place the DragonFly
> > CD seems to make it to. Perhaps at the loader type 'boot -v' and that
> > may help give us some more indication of the problem.
> > 
> 
> it stops at:
> 
> 
> 
> acd0: <SONY DVD-ROM DDU1612/DYS1> DVD-ROM drive at ata1 as master
> acd0: read 6890KB/s (36026KB/s), 512KB buffer, PIO4
> acd0: Reads: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA stream, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, packet
> acd0: Writes:
> acd0: Audio, play, 256 volume levels
> acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray, unlocked
> acd0: Medium: CD-ROM 120mm data disc
> (probe2:ata1:0:0:0): INQUIRY, CDB: 12 1 80 0 ff 0
> (probe2:ata1:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
> (probe2:ata1:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
> [the above "probe" messages repeat one more time]
> 
> > Are you trying to boot off the SATA ? If or even if not it could be the
> > nForce chipset on the board doing something odd.
> > 
> 
> SATA is disabled via jumper on the motherboard.  I updated this to the 
> latest available BIOS revision and that hasn't seemed to work.
> 
> 
> > -DR

This is clearly not unique to my particular board... there is a bunch
of noise about it on the linux mailing lists too.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.1/0594.html

Dave