Bug 185587

Summary:	FreeBSD 10-RC4 wont boot 8-core Atom Based server
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Eduardo <dudu.meyer>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Eduardo 2014-01-08 18:10:00 UTC

I am trying to boot 10.0-RC4 on a server made up of the following:

CPU: Atom C2758 "Rangeley"
Board vendor: supermicro

FreeBSD 9 boots just fine!

However FreeBSD 10 wont boot at all. It hangs. I tried some basic troubleshooting:

FreeBSD/x86 boot                                                                
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader                                                 
boot: /boot/kernel/kernel -dv-   

Hangs. Only char "-" shows up.

FreeBSD/x86 boot                                                                
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader                                                  
boot:     /boot/loader -dv\

Hangs again. Only char "\"

Since loader wont show, I could not scape to loader prompt and try other things like set debug.kdb.enter=1, enable/disable features, etc and "-d" in this boot stage caused the hang with no further info.

What else can I do to get more info?

Comment 1 Eduardo 2014-01-08 20:23:48 UTC

Please close this PR, it's not a FreeBSD system problem, it's a
documentation problem.
Handbook instructions on how to boot dual mode (vga+console) must be
updated. Output was never directed to the desired place.
I will send another PR regarding Handbook doc on this matter.

Thank you.

Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2014-01-09 03:45:58 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Closed at submitter's request.