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fkoh

Hi,

I bought myself a mini-itx 'VIA EPIA VE 900 Nano X2' mainboard and want to install FreeBSD on it.
I downloaded the 'FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso'.
During the boot process the system hangs on:


Code: 
...
est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1
p4tcc1: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu1
Device configuration finished.
procfs registered
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
vlan: initialized, using hash tables with chaining
lo0: bpf attached
hptrr: no controller detected.
hdac0: Probing codec #1...

hdac0 is the sound card as far as I understand it. I disabled it in BIOS but still the same problem.

Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,

fkoh
 
Here are some infos for this board:

Code: 
Processor: VIA Nano X2 1,4GHz Dual Core (FSB 800)
Chipset: VX900
Memory:
2 x Socket 240pin DDR3 for 1066/800 up to 8GB
Single-channel architecture accommodates two unbuffered DIMM`s
Graphics:
Integrated VIA Chrome9 DH integrated processor
Pixel shader (SM2.0)
Microsoft DirectX 7, 8, 9 compatible
CRT Monitor 2048 x x1536
512MB frame buffer size
Video accelerator
Audio: VIA VT1708S
Espansion Slot: 1 x PCI
Storage: 2 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s devices
Lan: Realtek RTL8111E GigaLan
 
Disable all unnecessary devices, serial ports, parallel ports, firewire, floppy controller etc.
 
kpa said:
Disable all unnecessary devices, serial ports, parallel ports, firewire, floppy controller etc.
Click to expand...

tried this already without success.


SirDice said:
Have you tried updating the BIOS?
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Yes, just found out theres a newer BIOS .rom file. Working on flashing it but it's horrible because the VIA VE-900 support-site gives no information on what utility to use nor what changed in this BIOS-update. Trying an old update utility now called Via Flash Tool 1.02.

I will report back.

Thanks.
 
For the record: AFUDOS is used to flash the BIOS on this board.

Flashing the BIOS changed nothing for my problem.

An other ideas?

Regards,

fkoh
 
It may not be the audio that is the problem, but the next device being probed.

Individually, try these:

Try an updated 9-stable from http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/.
Wait several minutes. Some systems take a long time for the installer to boot.
Set the SATA controller to IDE or non-AHCI mode. Or vice versa, if it was set that way.
Boot with ACPI disabled.
 
tried the newest 9-stable snapshot, ACPI enabled/disabled - same problem.

i dont have disks attached to the board, just trying to boot from cd.

how can i find out which device exactly causes the problem?

Regards,

fkoh
 
It doesn't matter if there are disks attached, it's the controller mode that may be a problem. Although what the install will use for storage is a question.
 
Now i got 8.3-RELEASE running now on this board but i'm running into some problem because i have some geli encrypted disks that were created on another board with 9.0-RELEASE and theres no backward compatibility to 8.3 ( ~ http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-geom/2011-10/msg00075.html )

How can i supply information for developers that 9.0 will run on this board?

Regards,

fkoh
 
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