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From: Francois Pollet <freebsd@perceval.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time on ASUS P2B series MBs (P2B-B)
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>Number:         34965
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time on ASUS P2B series MBs (P2B-B)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 15 07:10:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sat Apr 24 01:17:00 PDT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Sat Apr 24 07:20:04 PDT 2004
>Originator:     Francois Pollet
>Release:        4.4-RELEASE, 4.5-RELEASE
>Organization:
Perceval Technologies
>Environment:
GENERIC kernel (original floppies) on i386
ASUS P2B-B motherboard
ATA CD-ROM
Adaptec AHA2940UW

>Description:
FreeBSD 4.4 and 4.5 hangs at boot time during device detection.

Kernel boot is OK
Device selection is OK
Devices detection hangs after serial (sioX) and parallel (ppcX) ports
detection. The last line printed is:
 plip0 ....

It seems that some kind of conflict happens between ppc0 and ATA/SCSI
drives detection.

The same hardware works without any trouble during a FreeBSD 4.3
installation.

>How-To-Repeat:
Restart the machine ...     
>Fix:
Do not know the fix, but the workaround is:

! Enable the USB interrupt in the P2B Motherboard BIOS config !

No jumper exist on the MB to disable the USB ports, but those
who do not need USB usualy disable the IRQ to keep one more
IRQ free. DON'T DO THAT !

This is probably due to some changes in the usb code
between 4.3 and 4.4 ? 
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Francois Pollet <freebsd@perceval.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/34965: 4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time on ASUS P2B series MBs (P2B-B)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:35:05 +0200

 Hi,
 
 On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:07:48AM -0800, Francois Pollet wrote:
 > It seems that some kind of conflict happens between ppc0 and ATA/SCSI
 > drives detection.
 
 This was reported by someone on the lists, and upgrading to the latest
 BIOS (xxx13) fixed it for them.
 
 Regards,
   -Jeremy
 
 -- 
 FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free...
                                            http://www.freebsd.org/

From: Francois Pollet <freebsd@perceval.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd@perceval.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/34965: 4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time on ASUS P2B series MBs 
 (P2B-B)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:52:19 +0100

 > This was reported by someone on the lists, and upgrading to the latest
 > BIOS (xxx13) fixed it for them.
 
 At the early beginning of our investigations, we suspected a SCSI problem 
 and we upgraded our 2940UW BIOS to 2.20.
 
 Finaly, after having tested the 4.4 boot CD with the same SCSI adapter
 and drive on a P4-B, we saw that the acd0 was detected AFTER the plip0 but
 BEFORE the SCSI drives. We suspected then a problem with the P2B-B BIOS
 settings.
 Our ASUS P2B-B motherboard was already configured with the latest official
 BIOS (10.11). We tried the latest 10.13beta7 this morning.
 
 I confirm that the latest BIOS release for the P2B-B does NOT fix the problem.
 After reseting the MB BIOS settings to the 'Setup Defaults', the USB IRQ is
 activated with the side effect that the problem seems to be fixed as explained
 in the workaround ...
 
 The workaround is enough except for those using many adapters that require
 specific IRQs (if all slots in use ...)
 
 Regards,
 
 Francois.

From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@bbnetworks.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd@perceval.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/34965: 4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time on ASUS P2B series MBs (P2B-B)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 04:58:59 +0200 (EET)

 I see this same problem with ASUS P2B-S and P2B-DS (latter has only one
 processor installed), both freeze with boot floppies and kernels later
 than 4.3 (some -STABLE kernels work, I do not have date but a guess might be
 2001/03/20).  BIOS upgrade did not have effect.
 

From: curtis@ana.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd@perceval.net
Cc: curtis@ana.com
Subject: Re: kern/34965: 4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time%2
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:05:17 -0700 (PDT)

 The problem is still in BIOS rev 1014 beta 2.
 The enable USB interrupt workaround appears to work if you have spare 
 interrupts.
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: johan 
State-Changed-When: Thu Dec 4 07:21:25 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still a problem with newer releases of FreeBSD 
for example 4.9? 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=34965 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 24 01:16:52 PDT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=34965 

From: Francois Pollet <fp@perceval.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd@perceval.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/34965: 4.4, 4.5 freeze at boot time on ASUS P2B series MBs 
 (P2B-B)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:15:39 +0200

 Sorry, but I never had the occasion to test P2Bxx under 4.9
 (old hardware never recycled)
 
 The problem never happened again on any other ASUS MB I use under 4.9 (P3x,P4x)
>Unformatted:
