Re: 7.0 BETA4 unstable on MSI AM2 motherboard

From: Morten Strårup <morten_at_lightworkings.dk>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:15:55 +0100
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've got the system running now with a Silicon Image 3114 controller, 
the i386 version boots with no errors and the AMD64 version does as well.

Output of pciconf -lv is pasted below.

none0_at_pci0:0:0:0:       class=0x050000 card=0x72501462 chip=0x036910de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 Memory Controller'
    class      = memory
    subclass   = RAM
isab0_at_pci0:0:1:0:       class=0x060100 card=0x72501462 chip=0x036010de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 LPC Bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-ISA
none1_at_pci0:0:1:1:       class=0x0c0500 card=0x72501462 chip=0x036810de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 SMBus'
    class      = serial bus
    subclass   = SMBus
ohci0_at_pci0:0:2:0:       class=0x0c0310 card=0x72501462 chip=0x036c10de 
rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 USB Controller'
    class      = serial bus
    subclass   = USB
ehci0_at_pci0:0:2:1:       class=0x0c0320 card=0x72501462 chip=0x036d10de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 USB Controller'
    class      = serial bus
    subclass   = USB
atapci0_at_pci0:0:4:0:     class=0x01018a card=0x72501462 chip=0x036e10de 
rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 IDE'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = ATA
atapci1_at_pci0:0:5:0:     class=0x010185 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037f10de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 SATA Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = ATA
atapci2_at_pci0:0:5:1:     class=0x010185 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037f10de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 SATA Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = ATA
atapci3_at_pci0:0:5:2:     class=0x010185 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037f10de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 SATA Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = ATA
pcib1_at_pci0:0:6:0:       class=0x060401 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037010de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCI bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
none2_at_pci0:0:6:1:       class=0x040300 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037110de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'ADI 1988B 8 Channel High Definition Audio'
    class      = multimedia
nfe0_at_pci0:0:8:0:        class=0x068000 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037310de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 Ethernet'
    class      = bridge
nfe1_at_pci0:0:9:0:        class=0x068000 card=0x72501462 chip=0x037310de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 Ethernet'
    class      = bridge
pcib2_at_pci0:0:10:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x000010de chip=0x037610de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCIe bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib3_at_pci0:0:11:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x000010de chip=0x037410de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCIe bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib4_at_pci0:0:12:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x000010de chip=0x037410de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCIe bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib5_at_pci0:0:13:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x000010de chip=0x037810de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCIe bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib6_at_pci0:0:14:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x000010de chip=0x037510de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCIe bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib7_at_pci0:0:15:0:      class=0x060400 card=0x000010de chip=0x037710de 
rev=0xa3 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
    device     = 'MCP55 PCIe bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
hostb0_at_pci0:0:24:0:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11001022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device     = '(K8) Athlon 64/Opteron HyperTransport Technology 
Configuration'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = HOST-PCI
hostb1_at_pci0:0:24:1:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11011022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device     = '(K8) Athlon 64/Opteron Address Map'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = HOST-PCI
hostb2_at_pci0:0:24:2:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11021022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device     = '(K8) Athlon 64/Opteron DRAM Controller'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = HOST-PCI
hostb3_at_pci0:0:24:3:     class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11031022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device     = '(K8) Athlon 64/Opteron Miscellaneous Control'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = HOST-PCI
atapci4_at_pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x010400 card=0x71141095 chip=0x31141095 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)'
    device     = 'Sil 3114 SATALink/SATARaid Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = RAID
vgapci0_at_pci0:1:1:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x0519102b 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd.'
    device     = 'MGA-2064W Storm (Millennium board)'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA


Kind Regards

Morten Strårup
Received on Tue Dec 25 2007 - 15:16:05 UTC

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