Re: booting on i915 + ICH6 SATA?

[grog <grog@xxxxxxx>]

Chuck Tuffli wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:37:29AM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
>  
>
> > On 9 June 2005 19:37, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> > > > Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> > > >  > The 1.2.0-RELEASE won't boot on machine built on i915 + ICH6 SATA
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Try the patch mentioned at
> > > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2005-01/msg00189.html ,
> > > > but you need to rebuild the kernel yourself for that.
> > > >        
> > > This patch should have helped if the problem is an interrupt storm from
> > > the sata controller. I tested this against a plain ICH6 where as the
> > > hardware you have uses an ICH6R. The patch (already included in 1.2)
> > > supports both. Are there messages about 'livelock' when you use verbose
> > > booting?
> > >      
> > Well, there seem to be none, at least I can't "catch" any. 
> > It stucks finally at isa_probe_children: probing for PnP devices.
> >
> >    
>
> Can you do:
>
> set console=comconsole
> set boot_verbose=yes
> boot
>
> at the boot menu and then
> capture what comes out the serial port with something like minicom?
>  
I'd love to, but I haven't got such gear there. I'll have to dig around 
a bit.
Is there no way to do without this?