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Subject:Re: [regression] unable to boot: no GEOM devices found.
From:John Baldwin (jh@freebsd.org)
Date:Apr 15, 2011 9:27:43 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-current

On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:07:06 pm David Naylor wrote:

On Tuesday 12 April 2011 22:12:55 Alexander Motin wrote:

David Naylor wrote:

On Tuesday 12 April 2011 08:17:51 Alexander Motin wrote:

David Naylor wrote:

I am running -current and since a few days ago (at least 2011/04/11) I am unable to boot.

The boot process stops when it looks to find a bootable device. The prompt (when pressing '?') does not display any device and yielding one second (or more) to the kernel (by pressing '.') does not improve the situation.

A known working date is 2011/02/20.

I am running amd64 on a nVidia MCP51 chipset.

MCP51... again...

+ata2: reiniting channel .. +ata2: SATA connect time=0ms status=00000113 +ata2: reset tp1 mask=01 ostat0=58 ostat1=00 +ata2: stat0=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 +ata2: reset tp2 stat0=50 stat1=00 devices=0x1 +ata2: reinit done .. +unknown: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out LBA=0

As soon as all devices detected but not responding to commands, I would suppose that there is something wrong with ATA interrupts. There is a long chain of interrupt problems in this chipset. I have already tried to debug one case where ATA wasn't generating interrupts at all. Unfortunately, without success -- requests were executing, but not generating interrupts, it wasn't looked like ATA driver problem.

What's about possible candidate to revision triggering your problem, I would look on this message: +pcib0: Enabling MSI window for HyperTransport slave at pci0:0:9:0

At least it is recent (SVN revs 219737,219740 on 2011-03-18 by jhb) and it is interrupt related.

I reverted those two revs and everything works again.

Hmm, can you provide a full boot verbose dmesg? Alternatively, can you see if the device at pci0:0:9:0 is a PCI-PCI bridge?