Re: 7.0 BETA4 unstable on MSI AM2 motherboard

Travis Mikalson wrote:
> 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.

I do have such a controller, so I'll try it out when I get back home, 
sometime tomorrow.

I'll post the results once I have them.

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Kind regards

Morten Strårup