Gigabyte Intros Bay Trail J1800 Based Mini-ITX Board

stephenw10

Hmm, well 3 options I see:
1: Fix the bios yourself. Might not be that tough but it's risky.
2: Run a hypervisor and run pfSense as a VM.
3. Wait for Asrock to fix it. Could be a loooooooong time!

I did also look into the possibility of overriding the faulty table at boot. You can do that with the DSDT table but I'm not sure about the MADT.
The actual patch to FreeBSD required to workaround this is small but appears to have gone in only on Jun 23 this year so will not have made it into 10-rel and hence pfSense 2.2.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187966

Steve

Edit: typos

paulsnoop

Thanks for the tips Steve. As VMWare also has problems with this CPU, I suspect I'll end up going with Hyper-V.

notar

Good morning
I have a q1900M motherborard with two intel nics pro/100 and, this morning, i have finish the router with pfsense. When i load pfsense and i select 1 in the menu, i have the same problem with ACPI but, when i select 2 in the menu, all work fine and install go fine. I am just a problem with the route. Sorry for my English, i have French.

stephenw10

So you can boot if you select 'ACPI disabled'?
You can make that permanent by adding the line in /boot/loader.conf.local. See:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#pfSense_2.0

Steve

notar

@stephenw10:

So you can boot if you select 'ACPI disabled'?
You can make that permanent by adding the line /boot/loader.conf.local. See:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#pfSense_2.0

Steve

Good morning
Yes, i can boot with ACPI disable. Thanks for the tip. Notar
PS : I can't install amd64, it bug. I have installed the i386

notar

Good morning
I have tested the pfsense 2.2 alpha and it work fine with acpi enable. Just the dns seem don't work and it is necessary to put a dns in network config. Why this, i don' know. Notar

stephenw10

2.2 is still in alpha. A new DNS forwarder is being used and I guess a bug was introduced while things are being ironed out.

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78356.0

Steve

elbob

Hi,

Long time pfsense user but this is my first post here.

I just want to add to this thread by saying I recently bought a J1900-D3V board. I got around to assembling it yesterday and came across the same issues others were having.

However I did try a trick that was suggested above that worked. On cold boot I get the Interrupt Trigger error. However If I press the reset switch it will boot up with no issues.

I've installed 2.1.4 64bit.

Hopefully this workaround will help someone until a more permanent fix is available from Gigabyte or BSD kernel workaround.

I forgot to mention that I'm using the F3 version of the BIOS and I also disabled all the UFI stuff so everything in the Advanced –> CSM configuration section of the BIOS is set to Legacy.

molle

Here is a patch for FreeBSD 8.3 64 Bit, its just a backport of the patch from the bugreport.

Somehow i can't login into the bugtracker, just posting it here for interested people.

https://gist.github.com/cHolzberger/419d214d3c16ae2a8f25

stephenw10

Interesting. Is it possible to add that as a module or does it require a complete kernel rebuild?

Steve

molle

it requires a new kernel to be build.
wont work that great with updates…

i just sent the patch to the dev@ mailinglist. perhaps it gets included in next stable?

AveryFreeman

I have a pfSense build I made with a Lenovo H100s motherboard (j1800) that I bought off ebay for $15 and a Pro 1000 VT quad NIC, and a couple Intel SLC SSDs in a gmirror, running 2.3.3_1 bare metal.

I can confirm that the bay trail processor works great with 2.3.3. Iperf over 900mbs across local network, rarely goes above 30% CPU with OpenVPN tunnel running concurrently.