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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:12:32 -0800
From: "Jeff Stelzner" <jeff.stelzner@esca.com>
To: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Subject: 5.0-RC1 kern floppy load fails on AMD K6-2 Socket 7 system

>Number:         46194
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       [install] 5.0-RC1 kern floppy load fails on AMD K6-2 Socket 7 system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    remko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 11 09:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 10 21:08:49 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 10 21:08:49 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Jeff Stelzner <jeff.stelzner@esca.com>
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 i386
>Organization:
Less-Is-More
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nexus.less-is-more.org 5.0-RC1 FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 #0

Digital Celebris GL 5133 ST firmware 1.07
PhoenixBIOS 4.04
Evergreen AMD K6-2 400Mhz [upgrade kit for Pentium 133]

>Description:

Booting from the 5.0-RC1 kern.flp floppy fails. Console output:

Uncompressing ...
Loader 1.00 ...
int=0000000d	err=00000000	efl=00004016	eip=00036174
eax=00000000	ebx=758c75cae	ecx=00000003	edx=00037157
esi=00000000	edi=00007a4b	ebp=00166aff	esp=00036174
...
cs=002b	ds=0033	es=0033	fs=0033	gs=0033	ss=0033
BTX halted

[screen output has random characters overwriting text in various places]
[system reboots itself after ~1 sec - repeats ad infinitum]

This system boots/runs FreeBSD 4.7 and earlier [3.x/4.x] kern.flp images
fine.

I have seen similar problems with Mandrake Linux kernels, i.e. older kernels
boot fine [2.4.17] but newer kernels do not [2.4.19]. There was some mention
in Mandrake forums about issues with AMD K6-2 on Socket 7 board
[http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2108&lang=en]
attributed to "kernel VM support causing problems with the K6-2 and its
memory paging algorithms". Not sure if that might also be an issue with
FreeBSD-5.0-RC1.

I got similar results with 5.0-DP2 kern.flp, duplicated with multiple
floppy images and on 2 identical systems. These are older systems which
do not support CDROM boot, so I can't try that.

>How-To-Repeat:

Insert 5.0-RC1 kern.flp boot floppy into system.
Attempt to boot. Watch it fail and reboot repeatedly.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <jeff.stelzner@esca.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/46194: 5.0-RC1 kern floppy load fails on AMD K6-2 Socket 7 system
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:35:57 -0500

 I have a K6-2 board as well. It's a 'real' Super Socket 7 mainboard (FIC
 VA-503+), with a VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset. My network card doesn't work very
 well at all (see the -current mailing list), and I can't use my floppy drive
 anymore, and my usb controller doesn't work. Clearly something is busted
 here.
 
 

From: jeff.stelzner@esca.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, jeff.stelzner@esca.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/46194: 5.0-RC1 kern floppy load fails on%
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:41:57 -0800 (PST)

 CPU information from 4.7 boot on this hardware follows:
 
 Dec  2 21:53:26 nostra /kernel: CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (398.18-MHz 586-class CPU)
 Dec  2 21:53:26 nostra /kernel: Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x58c  Stepping = 12
 Dec  2 21:53:26 nostra /kernel: Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX>
 Dec  2 21:53:26 nostra /kernel: AMD Features=0x80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow!>
 Dec  2 21:53:26 nostra /kernel: K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jul 13 00:18:35 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Can you please retry with 5.1-RELEASE? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46194 

From: "Jeff Stelzner" <jeff.stelzner@esca.com>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>,
	"Jeff Stelzner" <jeff.stelzner@esca.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/46194: 5.0-RC1 kern floppy load fails on AMD K6-2 Socket 7 system
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:57:04 -0700

 I repeated the test with 5.1-RELEASE kern.flp and got similar results. I no
 longer get random characters overwriting console text, and the register
 contents may differ, but the overall BTX halt/reboot cycle is the same.
 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 15 21:33:39 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Submitter reports problem persists with 5.1 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46194 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 09:56:58 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still ongoing as of FreeBSD 6.1? It appears that not 
much had been done, but the developers continued and this 
might have been solved in the meantime. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->remko 
Responsible-Changed-By: remko 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 09:56:58 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Grab the PR 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46194 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 10 21:07:24 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
The submitter reports that he no longer has this hardware, 
closing the PR for that reason, if someone has feedback 
please deliver it to me so that we can see what needs to 
be done. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46194 
>Unformatted:
