From nobody@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 10:03:31 2000 Return-Path: Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id 9DEC114E31; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:03:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20000115180331.9DEC114E31@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:03:31 -0800 (PST) From: bero@redhat.de Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD doesn't install on Notebook w/ SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS 1.01 X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 16132 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: FreeBSD doesn't install on Notebook w/ SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS 1.01 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 15 10:10:01 PST 2000 >Closed-Date: Wed May 30 02:20:40 PDT 2001 >Last-Modified: Wed May 30 02:21:56 PDT 2001 >Originator: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer >Release: 4.0-20000114-CURRENT, 3.4-RELEASE >Organization: Red Hat >Environment: n/a >Description: Trying to install FreeBSD (same with 3.4-RELEASE and 4.0-20000114-CURRENT) on a Gericom 3xC notebook fails; the install kernel doesn't come up. I suspect a timer interrupt problem (very probably a BIOS bug, but one that can be worked around; Linux [Red Hat 6.2b1] works). When doing boot -v, the kernel hangs after printing "Calibrating clock(s) ..." (sys/i386/isa/clock.c). At this point, nothing works (keyboard LEDs and stuff). Pushing the suspend button (off button in suspend mode -> NMI) leads to an infinite beep rather than a short beep followed by suspend-to-disk. Pushing the suspend button again [generating another NMI] suspends the box. When resuming from suspend, booting proceeds to the kernel configuration menu; at this point, nothing works (suspending/resuming a couple of times doesn't fix anything - the kernel waits for keyboard input, but the keyboard is dead). Prior to entering the kernel configuration menu, two more messages are printed; they scroll by too fast to be read entirely (and with a dead keyboard, there's nothing to do about it); one says something about a timer differing from default by more than 1 percent, the other identifies the timer ("Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz"; booting without -v gets up to this point before the first hang). Some details on this notebook: Mobile Celeron 400 CPU Revision 7, 128 MB SDRAM, Intel PIIX4 chipset, IDE harddisk/DVD drive, normal floppy drive and keyboard (no internal USB or such), SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS 1.01(R1.12) (current) >How-To-Repeat: My current guess is the problem is related to the BIOS, so trying to install FreeBSD on any notebook using SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS 1.01 should do. I might be wrong about the reason though... >Fix: no idea yet. My first guess is that the writertc() calls in clock.c are causing the trouble. Btw: Where can I download the BOOTMFS kernel config file? I'd like to play with this bug. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: i386/16132: FreeBSD doesn't install on Notebook w/ SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS 1.01 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:56:20 +0100 (CET) Additional info: OpenBSD 2.6 works without problems on the same machine. That should make the problem easier to track down. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: sos State-Changed-When: Wed May 30 02:20:40 PDT 2001 State-Changed-Why: Try 4.3 RELEASE, and get back to us if there is still problems. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16132 >Unformatted: