6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes

[Loren M. Lang]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:49:14AM -0500, Brown, Steve wrote:
> By the way, the issue was gone when I installed to one of the IDE drives.
> 
> FreeBSD 6 must not like my SATA controller.  At least it tries though.  Red
> Hat 9 and Solaris 10 would not recongnize it at all during installation.

What SATA controller is it?  I know in particular the SiL3112 Silcon
Image chipset is buggy hardware.  If it's only an add-in card, you could
try another one.  I have a cheap Highpoint RocketRAID 1520.  It works
fine as a SATA controller, but the raid on it is fake-raid.  There is
little to no hardware support on it and it would be better to use
FreeBSD's built-in software raid if you need it.

By the way, the SiL3112 had problems on both linux and bsd, but it
worked most of the time.  I think the windows drivers they provide have
a work-around in them for the buggy hardware, but would you really want
buggy hardware?

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Brown, Steve
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:25 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> Subject: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
>  
> I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP
> Pro) now.  The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down
> with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way.  I'm
> running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet.
> However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the
> install.  It seems completely random.  Sometimes I get to where it's mostly
> configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long
> enough to get to that point.  Once it locks up, it will not respond to any
> input.  
>  
> More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I
> tried the obvious - not loading any.  After getting it booted up that way
> (which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it
> will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it.  I have also
> tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but
> it will still lock up.  It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks
> up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes
> or so.
>  
> I have tried booting the "without ACPI" option and it won't even boot up
> that way due to some IRQ 19 error.  Normally I see no real problems on the
> screen during bootup.
>  
> I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair
> XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on
> card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs
>  
> Shouldn't this system be fully supported?
>  
> I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's
> the issue.
> 
> Any other ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Steve
> 
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