Re: Geode based PC/104 micro board and FreeBSD

2004-09-20 Thread Bruce R. Montague 

Hi, very likely you have hit a known issue on the
original Geode. In "generic_bcopy" in "i386/support.s" 
FreeBSD occasionally does a byte-aliged long rep 
move in the video buffer that locks the geode hard.
See the patches at the following (it is a trivial
patch):

  63.249.85.132
  63.249.85.132/geode.html
  63.249.85.132/geode.html#patch_bcopy

If you have no other means to fix this, there is an
old 4.7 patched CD image at the above site that will 
boot on the Geode.

I'm guilty of not submitting this as some sort of
patch; it seemed a few years went by and there was
no need/interest. The Soekris apparently never
exercises this video code. I'll look at this again 
if I have time. The Geode II (and maybe other geode
variants) supposedly don't have this problem, but I
don't know...


 - bruce
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Re: Geode based PC/104 micro board and FreeBSD

2004-09-20 Thread soralx 

> If I install FreeBSD to CF card on other PC and use this CF card to boot
> this machine, it will lockup 5-15 seconds after I login to it on the
> console.

try booting without ACPI

Timestamp: 0x414F3755
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Geode based PC/104 micro board and FreeBSD

2004-09-20 Thread Alex K 


Hello, everyone!

Recently I've got PCM-5820 single board computer with Geode GX1-300 CPU.
Mine is with 32M ram and 512M Compact Flash mapped to secondary IDE master.
I have tried numerous times to install FreeBSD on it, but it hangs right after
startup. I have tried 4.8, 5.2.1, and CURRENT, everything same :(
I have also tried FreeSBIE LiveCD. If I boot it into single user mode, it is 
not dying. But during normal startup it is dying on 1st curses screen, right
after selecting keyboard layout.  Same with FreeBSD installation, dies right
after "Probing devices, this can take a while... " dissapears.

If I install FreeBSD to CF card on other PC and use this CF card to boot
this machine, it will lockup 5-15 seconds after I login to it on the console.

Any ideas how I can track down this problem?
There are no panics, nothing, just a hardware lockup.
I have tried tweaking all the avaible settings in BIOS.

Windoze ME runs fine on it, even off Compact Flash card.

For those who wants to see "the exterior":
http://www.intercaf.ru/~lesha/server.jpg


Cheers, AL.

p.s. Please CC me!

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