I have a mini-pc with a VIA Eden X2 U4200 1 GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, and ASMedia ASM1061 AHCI. I am trying to install FreeBSD 14.1R-AMD64 on it, but the installer USB fails to get to the installer menu. Things start fine, but boot always hangs at the point where HDA and PCM are shown. As I do not get to the point where I could have a shell, I cannot provide dmesg or pciconf output. I did try fiddling with the boot option, trying safe-mode, ACPI on/off, and verbose mode.
Here is the last screenful of output I can see:
And that is where it always freezes.
I tried booting other systems from USB, these all worked fine.
NetBSD 9.3 x86_64 installer, could get to a shell.
OpenBSD 7.6 amd64 installer, could get to a shell.
Haiku R1beta4, boots to GUI, sound/disk/graphics works well.
GParted Live debian 6.10.11-amd64, boots to GUI and works fine.
Fedora Server 39 x86_64, boots to the graphics installer menu, did not test further.
Windows 10 22H2 64-bit, successfully installed from USB, works fine.
So it seems that the hardware SHOULD work with FreeBSD-amd64 and FreeBSD-i386, but apparently the installer fails to boot up a functioning system.
I tried 13.x too, and i386 too. All FreeBSD installers hang exactly as shown above.
This mini-pc is pre-EFI, boots only in BIOS mode.
I do not have experience with getting the installer completing to boot on a hardware that it does not seem to like.
I can get hardware details if needed from Win10 device manager or OpenBSD dmesg and pciconf.
Any advice, suggestion, pointer on what to try or read is more than welcome.
Here is the last screenful of output I can see:
Code:
uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpie
ns8250: UART FCR is broken
ns8250: UART FCR is broken
uar t2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 11 on acpie
ppc0: <Parallel port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-8x77f irq 7 drq 3 on acpie
ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
lptØ: <Printer> on ppbus0
lptØ: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel 1/0> on ppbus8
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem Øxce008-0xcefff pnpid ORM0000 on isaB
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem Bxa0000-0xbffff pnpid PHPB900
on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbdØ: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbdø at atkbde
atkbdØ: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbdc0: non-PNP ISA device will be removed from GENERIC in FreeBSD 15.
estØ: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpub
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1200042251 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
hdaccØ: <VIA (Bx9f80) HDA CODEC> at cad 1 on hdac0
hdaa0: <VIA (Ox9f88) Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
pcmØ: <VIA (0x9f80) CHDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaaB
hdacc1: <Realtek ALC269 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Realtek ALC269 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm1: <Realtek ALC269 (Analog)> at nid 20 and 25 on hdaal
pcm2: <Realtek ALC269 (Front Analog Headphones)> at nid 21 on hdaalI tried booting other systems from USB, these all worked fine.
NetBSD 9.3 x86_64 installer, could get to a shell.
OpenBSD 7.6 amd64 installer, could get to a shell.
Haiku R1beta4, boots to GUI, sound/disk/graphics works well.
GParted Live debian 6.10.11-amd64, boots to GUI and works fine.
Fedora Server 39 x86_64, boots to the graphics installer menu, did not test further.
Windows 10 22H2 64-bit, successfully installed from USB, works fine.
So it seems that the hardware SHOULD work with FreeBSD-amd64 and FreeBSD-i386, but apparently the installer fails to boot up a functioning system.
I tried 13.x too, and i386 too. All FreeBSD installers hang exactly as shown above.
This mini-pc is pre-EFI, boots only in BIOS mode.
I do not have experience with getting the installer completing to boot on a hardware that it does not seem to like.
I can get hardware details if needed from Win10 device manager or OpenBSD dmesg and pciconf.
Any advice, suggestion, pointer on what to try or read is more than welcome.
