pfSense

From forum post: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,39181.0.html which was submitted by palesius

I have a system (Jetway NF96 motherboard) which functions fine under 1.23 - standard. (see attached output of dmesg "pfsense123-standard")
Mainboard: Jetway NF96FL-525 Dual Core Atom D525, Fanless
Memory: 240-pin DDR2 800 DIMM 1GB
HDD: Emphase FDM44XDI1G Industrial Flash Module (44-pin) 1GB
LAN Ports: 4x Gb LAN Ports (AD3RTLANG Daughterboard + 1x onboard Gb LAN)

with 1.23 embedded I get occasional errors of the form:
ad0: FAILURE - READ status=ff<BUSY,READY,DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0 LBA=727255
"pfsense123-embedded-1" shows a boot where this happens and it fails as a result
"pfsense123-embedded-2" is a successful boot

with 2.0RC3-embedded it hangs every time after:
SMP: AP CPU #3 (or 2 or 1) Launched!
which based on what i see, what should come next is:
Root mount waiting for: usbus6 usbus5 usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus
log is "pfsense2rc3-embedded"

with 2.0RC3 installing from scratch it returns an error 1 on trying to format the drive. (partition and bootblock go just fine though)

On an upgrade (upgrade logs attached as well, there is some complaining at the end about a missing PHP module), 1st try took forever (left it going 24 hours). Reinstalled 1.23 and tried again and it finished (which is the logs that are attached). However on rebooting it has
many errors like the above read error (instead of just one sometimes on 1.23 embedded and none on 1.23 standard) and fails to boot.

It seems like something changed with maybe the ide drivers (it's an ICH8 based board) from 1.23 to 2RC3 that makes it very unhappy. But it does seem to be an issue that was slightly present under 1.23 embedded).

P.S. tried installing to usb stick, several different ide flash modules and a hard drive. all seem to do the same thing.

The upgrade-log was too large to attach (476k) and it doesn't say it will allow zip files so...
I can break it up and post in multiple pieces if that will help.