i386/68518: Hangs while loading agp during boot from install media.

[Simon L. Nielsen]

The following reply was made to PR i386/68518; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
To: Russell Francis <rfrancis at ev.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/68518: Hangs while loading agp during boot from install media.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:42:00 +0200

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 On 2004.07.07 10:59:48 +0000, Russell Francis wrote:
 
 > I looked at problem report 61739 and am not sure how to adjust my AGP
 > aperature size?  I did not see an option in my BIOS, is there a boot
 > option or sysctl variable which can be set?
 
 If there is no BIOS option I don't think it's possible.
 
 > The aperature size is also lower than 256MB so I am not sure this
 > pr[68518] relates to that pr[61739].
 
 OK, it was just an idea, your problem could different.
 
 > I have currently worked around the problem by installing freebsd on a
 > different machine, rebuilding the kernel without AGP support and then
 > swapping the harddrive into the offending machine.  I am happy to
 > continue working through the problem though.
 
 Could you try to boot a -CURRENT kernel with AGP support, or a
 -CURRENT snapshot [1] to see if the problem has been fixed after
 5.2.1?
 
 [1] http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/
 
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 Simon L. Nielsen
 FreeBSD Documentation Team
 
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