Re: Annoying FreeBSD > 4.11 ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA mobo incompability

On 6/12/06, Kimmo Alm <kimmoa_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> My ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA won't work in FreeBSD versions over 4.x. I have
> tested 5.x, 6.x and even a current 7.x one.
>
> CD: "bootonly".
> Problem: Loads kernel, and then basically freezes, overwriting characters
> on the screen (at the boot menu with the options).
>
> Among the zillions of things I've tested to solve this problem include:
> Testing another videocard (PCI -- not on-board), testing without the S-ATA
> enabled, updated BIOS to the latest version (hardware made in 2004 and
> last BIOS update in late 2005), changing a ton of settings in the BIOS,
> installing the OS on another box and moving the HDD... Nothing works.
>
> The hardware cannot possibly not faulty as it can run Debian Linux or
> FreeBSD 4.11 perfectly well. That's right. No probbies there. But I don't
> want to run Linux and I don't want to run legacy FreeBSD...
>
> I don't know what else to say... I have really, really did my best and
> tested every potentional solution. No luck.
>
> I am now asking you to please look into this and perhaps come up with some
> kind of solution/patch. This is a standard hardware server motherboard,
> which apparently has won a lot of awards for being so great and flexible
> on top of that! It really makes little sense to me that this would not be
> supported by FreeBSD!

How about some useful info, like the last thing the boot messages
say before it freezes?

Did you boot in 'safe' mode, and if so what happens then.

The reason 4.11 works I imagine is that its not even trying to do
use ACPI.

Linux has like a 'zillion' engineers spread across most computer
manufacturers that keep it up to date, FreeBSD doesnt have
the same army, so when you say "it makes little sense" think
about that :)

Good luck,

Jack