Bug 16132
| Summary: | FreeBSD doesn't install on Notebook w/ SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS 1.01 | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
| Component: | i386 | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 3.4-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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 Try 4.3 RELEASE, and get back to us if there is still problems. |
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) 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. 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...