Re: VIA VE-900 nano X2 boot failure

In muc.lists.freebsd.current, you wrote:
> On 17 July 2012 20:56, Felix Kohtz <felix.kohtz_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recently purchased a VIA EPIA-VE-900 Nano X2 1,4 GHz Dual Core MiniITX
>> Board
>> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/viamainboards/ve900/index.jsp
>>
>> and wanted to install FreeBSD (amd64) from an iso-file on it.
>>
>> I tried to install:
>>
>> FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE :
>> works fine.
>> dmesg here: http://pastebay.net/1068207
>>
>> FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE :
>> stops during boot-process.
>> (part of - where it stops) dmesg here: http://pastebay.net/1068208
>>
>> FreeBSD 9.1-RELENG_9-20120716-JPSNAP from
>> https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/
>> stops during boot-process at same point like 9.0-RELEASE.
>>
>> FreeBSD 10.0-HEAD-20120717-JPSNAP from
>> https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/
>> stops during boot-process at same point like 9.0-RELEASE.
>>
>> I can provide more information on this problem if you say me what is needed
>> and i offer to test changes.
>
> To get better diagnostics:
> 1) try to put hint.hdac.0.disabled="1" into your /boot/device.hints,
> to disabled hdac device, then reboot and see if that helps
> hdac is under a cloud, since it is included in GENERIC starting from 9.0.
> 2) boot kernel in verbose mode
> (boot_verbose="YES" in /boot/loader.conf or simply boot -v)

Seems like a couple of Via boards are affected, see

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/163164

I had to rebuild the kernel to get it booting because
hint.hdac.0.disabled="1" didn't work on 9.0-REL btw

HTH