Can not boot from sil3124 SATA HBA

[Joe Mulloy]

I am attempting to install Nexenta Core Platform on an Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard with the boot drive(s) attached to a sil3124 (Silicon Image 3124) SATA controller. I was able to install and boot OpenSolaris 2008.11, OpenSolaris 2009.06 and NCP 1.0.1. I have tried with a single drive and a mirrored drive configuration. I am using the non-raid BIOS for the sil3124.

I enabled verbose mode on the boot command line. I have tried dropping to 32-bit mode and it still hangs.

Here is the output:

root nexus = i86pc
pseudo0 at root
pseudo0 is /psuedo
scsi_vhci0 at root
scsi_vhci0 at /scsi_vhci
isa0 at root
pseudo-device: ppm0
ppm0 is /pseudo/ppm@0
npe0 at root: space 0 offset 0
npe0 is /pci@0,0
            ATAPI device at targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
            model ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P
            ATA/ATAPI-7 supported, majver 0xf0 minver 0x0
PCI Express-device: ide@0, ata0
ata0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0
            UltraDMA mode 4 is selected
PCI Express-device: pci8086,244e@1e, pci_pci0
pci_pci0 is /pci@0,0/pci8086,244e@1e

[Joe Mulloy (jdmulloy)]

oddly enough, I can boot in 32-bit mode if I invoke the debugger as described in the FAQ.

http://www.nexenta.org/os/FAQ#head-7c7eb01e6d3e787745f9fda1920b294b9dfade1b

If I enable the debugger in 64 bit mode it hangs with the following.

installing pcie, module id 53.
load 'drv/pci_pci id 54 loaded @0xfffffffff79e8000/0xfffffffffbdcc567 size 6544/576
installing pci_pci, modules id 54.
load 'misc/sata' id 56 loaded @0xfffffffff79f1000/0xfffffffffbdccb57 size 75768/656
load 'drv/si3124' id 55 loaded @0xfffffffff79eq000/0xfffffffffbdcc7a7 size 25784/944
installing si3124, module id 55.
installing sata, module id 56.