Re: 6-CORE Dunnington

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd_at_codelabs.ru> wrote:
> Mars, good day.
>

Yo

> Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:36:43PM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote:
>>    I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling
>> the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out
>> that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not
>> boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time.
>
> [Assuming you had not touched any hardware or BIOS configuration
> since last good boot from -CURRENT CD.]
>
> Was is the totally cold boot (with power-off via unplugging the power
> cord/switching off the master power input on the power supply) or just a
> some sort of a warm or semi-cold boot with power button?  I had seen
> the cases where hardware was in a such bad state, that only totally
> cold boot was helping to recover.
>

Yes, I do this from time to time when I encounter hardware problems
like these. I've tried various BIOS settings and configurations,
changing to default BIOS values, I'd think I've scoured through all
the BIOS settings, frustratingly because the BIOS takes quite some
time to load (well this is a test platform, whaddya expect :-p)

Cold-booting does not help either.


> Just hangs
>> on
>>   ....
>>     uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>     uhci0: [ITHREAD]
>
> Any ways to disable (at least partially) USB stuff via BIOS?  May
> be disabling other devices will help too -- try to play with the
> disabling the various controllers.

I've tried that one too.


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cheers
mars