Hi all, I've recently upgraded my Athlon II based home box (happily running FreeBSD for several years) to a Phenom II X4 960T CPU. Now, kernel (11.2) hangs in early hardware initialization. Mainboard is a nForce 720 based Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 rev 1.0, BIOS is latest and the CPU is on Gigabyte's CPU support list for this board. A parallel Windows 7 installation continues to work flawlessly and the system is stable running prime95. Memtest86 reports no errors. I've tried several other OS boot media (DragonFly 5.4, OpenBSD 6.4, Linux 4.9) -- all boot fine with no problems (see dmesg output linked below). I've found two very similiar problem reports on the FreeBSD forums. Both involve Phenom II cpu's and nForce-based mainboards, so I think we're missing some BIOS/ACPI quirk here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/10-1-installer-wont-boot-past-acpi.50015/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-hangs-after-cpu-upgrade.64410/ So far, I tried (unsuccessfully) to disable obvious ACPI sub- systems (cpu, mwait, quirks) and debug settings (acpi.cpu_unordered, acpi.max_threads). Anyone got a hint where to look or debug this further? kernel boot messages (obtained from 10.4 amd64): https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/dmesg-freeze-FreeBSD10.txt boot messages with the previous Athlon II cpu in this system: https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/dmesg-FreeBSD-AthlonII.txt boot messages from DFly, OpenBSD and Linux: https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/ Cheers, -sascha
W dniu 13.12.2018 o?11:56, Sascha Klauder pisze:> Hi all, > > I've recently upgraded my Athlon II based home box (happily > running FreeBSD for several years) to a Phenom II X4 960T CPU. > Now, kernel (11.2) hangs in early hardware initialization. > > Mainboard is a nForce 720 based Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 rev 1.0, > BIOS is latest and the CPU is on Gigabyte's CPU support list > for this board. > > A parallel Windows 7 installation continues to work flawlessly > and the system is stable running prime95. Memtest86 reports no > errors. I've tried several other OS boot media (DragonFly 5.4, > OpenBSD 6.4, Linux 4.9) -- all boot fine with no problems (see > dmesg output linked below). > > I've found two very similiar problem reports on the FreeBSD > forums. Both involve Phenom II cpu's and nForce-based mainboards, > so I think we're missing some BIOS/ACPI quirk here. > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/10-1-installer-wont-boot-past-acpi.50015/ > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-hangs-after-cpu-upgrade.64410/ > > So far, I tried (unsuccessfully) to disable obvious ACPI sub- > systems (cpu, mwait, quirks) and debug settings (acpi.cpu_unordered, > acpi.max_threads). Anyone got a hint where to look or debug this > further? > > kernel boot messages (obtained from 10.4 amd64): > https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/dmesg-freeze-FreeBSD10.txt > > boot messages with the previous Athlon II cpu in this system: > https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/dmesg-FreeBSD-AthlonII.txt > > boot messages from DFly, OpenBSD and Linux: > https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/Try to boot FreeBSD with GRUB2 as a workaround. My hardware configuration also suffered from similar issue[1] so I had never successfully booted FreeBSD using standard loader, but GRUB2 allowed to install and use FreeBSD on this PC. [1]https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151122 -- Marek Zarychta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20181213/794a0284/attachment.sig>
On 13/12/2018 12:56, Sascha Klauder wrote:> So far, I tried (unsuccessfully) to disable obvious ACPI sub- > systems (cpu, mwait, quirks) and debug settings (acpi.cpu_unordered, > acpi.max_threads). Anyone got a hint where to look or debug this > further?Are you able to identify if you have a hardware or a software hang? E.g., are you able to enter ddb?> kernel boot messages (obtained from 10.4 amd64): > https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/dmesg-freeze-FreeBSD10.txt > > boot messages with the previous Athlon II cpu in this system: > https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/dmesg-FreeBSD-AthlonII.txt > > boot messages from DFly, OpenBSD and Linux: > https://lair.griffinsplace.de/~sascha/phenom/-- Andriy Gapon