Re: 7.0 BETA4 unstable on MSI AM2 motherboard

Morten Strårup wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I thought I would write here before I made a problem report.
> 
> I've been running 7.0-current since april or so without any significant 
> trouble but now I've run into quite a showstopper.
> 
> Until now the hardware used has been a Via C7 1,2 GHz mini-itx system 
> with 1 GB of RAM. But I've now bought some new hardware for use as a 
> fileserver and this new hardware doesn't work very well with 7.0. It 
> consists of an AMD BE2400 cpu, an MSI K9N SLI MCP motherboard with an 
> Nforce 570 SLI chipset and 4 GB of RAM.
> 
> I've run both memtest86 and merseine prime test to make sure that it 
> isn't the hardware that is faulty. I've tried changing the memory 
> modules but that didn't help.
> 
> Other operating systems like Ubuntu Linux 7.10, NetBSD 4.0 and Freebsd 
> 6.3 RC1 work just fine, but FreeBSD 7.0 does not. These have all been 
> AMD64 versions. I've also tested 8.0-current which doesn't work either. 
> I've tested the 7.0 and 8.0 installations with both AMD64 and i386 
> installations and none work.
> 
> For the AMD64 versions the errors consist of:
> 
> 1. Errors about wrong fileformat when loading shared libraries.
> 2. Errors about missing symbol table.
> 3. Errors about not being able to load /etc/termcap when logging in.
> 4. Errors about relocations when loading shared libraries.
> 5. Errors about init making an error and then dumping me to singleuser 
> and then not being able to load sh because of fileformat errors.
> 
> For the i386 versions the errors start when loading the BTX, where it 
> complains about missing acpi modules and then crashes with a list of 
> what the cpu registers contain.
> 
> The AMD64 errors sometimes also show up when installing the 7.0-BETA4.
> 
> Please tell me if you need more information or need me to test something 
> to diagnose the problem.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Morten Strårup

The symptoms sound a bit similar to the HT1000 on-board SATA issues.

I don't suppose you have a PCI SATA controller you could try out? I used 
a cheap Silicon Image 3114 (SiI3114) 32-bit PCI SATA controller while 
the HT1000 SATA problems were being worked out.

A "pciconf -lv" from that system would be helpful if you can manage to 
get it.

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