On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Alexander Motin <[email protected]> wrote: > Kirill Yelizarov wrote: >> I have a problem with booting 8.1-stable from compact flash. This maybe some >> speed selection issue. I have two verbose dmesg of the same hardware: 7.2 >> stable and 8.1-stable. The main difference in 7.2 is such message: >> ad0: setting PIO4 on ICH5 chip >> ad0: FAILURE - SET_MULTI status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> >> ad0: 3887MB <TRANSCEND 20081024> at ata0-master PIO4 >> But 7.2 starts and run. >> And 8.1 stable when trying to mount root shows the following >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0p2 >> ct_to_ts([2010-11-15 12:41:03]) = 1289824863.000000000 >> start_init: trying /sbin/init >> Nov 15 15:41:03 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to >> singlee >> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: >> And then i can only switch if off using acpi or just power off. >> >> I know there were changes in ata. Maybe there are some tunings available to >> select PIO4 (most cf are using it)? > > In 8-STABLE there were added tunables hint.ata.X.devX.mode and > hint.ata.X.mode to set ATA mode during boot. Before that - only > hw.ata.ata_dma. > >> P.S. I have two verbose dmesg but they are rather big. If needed i can post >> them hear. > > Verbose dmesg could be useful in many cases. Better upload it somewhere > else and post a link here.
On our 7.3 and 8.1 boxes, I've had to disable DMA in the BIOS and via /boot/loader.conf in order to successfully boot off 2 GB and 4 GB CompactFlash cards, in CF-to-IDE and CF-to-SATA adapters. -- Freddie Cash [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
