Bug 154957

Summary:	[boot] Install boot CD won't boot up - keeps rebooting (8.1 AMD64)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	David Kopecky <kopecky>
Component:	amd64	Assignee:	Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	8.1-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description David Kopecky 2011-02-22 14:10:11 UTC

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Only the above text is all what I see on the screen then the system
reboots itself. It is independent on install boot media (CD, USB ..)

System start boot OK when I set SATA controller to non-RAID mode (IDE)
or when there is no disks on SATA

HW:
ASUS M4A785S motherbd.
AMD Phenom 9500 64bit 2.2GHz quad
16G RAM
2x 2TB disks RAID1 on integrated SATA controller (chipset AMD SB750)

I think the problem is with SATA RAID BIOS (the bios version is:
AMD 3.0.1540.39) versus boot loader.

Fix: 

Don't use SATA controller in RAID mode

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2011-02-23 04:12:06 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-amd64

sounds hardware-specific.

Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:01:32 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 3 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2018-05-31 15:44:09 UTC

Unfortunately this PR was never addressed before these versions of FreeBSD went out of support.  Sorry.

If this is still a problem, please open a new PR.  Thanks.