From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 11:30:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4FD16A4CE; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0012E43FD7; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hB3JUG6T083390; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:30:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FCE39B6.1040305@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:29:58 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com> <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com> <20031203112523.M84301@light.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <20031203112523.M84301@light.sdf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: re@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:30:18 -0000 Tom wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >>Tom wrote: >> >> >> >>> Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that >>>will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues. I've never been able >>>to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350 >>>servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly. I have a PR open >>>on it. >>> >>> So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other >>>reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Are you using a PERC in those boxes? I've seen issues with PERC >>controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine. I received a patch, which >>fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world >>without rebooting the machine. :) >> >> > > Well, there are so many kinds of PERC cards. Some are just Mylex cards. >Others are MegaRAID. I think they use some Adaptec now. > My troubles were with the MegaRAID variant, I'm not sure about the others.. > Either way, I tried booting the install CD with all cards disconnected, >just to see if I could get the installer up to the main menu. No go. The >display switches off as soon as sysinstall starts probing devices. It >appears to panic, but the display is dead. Once I was able to use >scrolllock at the critical moment just before the kernel starts >sysinstall, and prevent the display from switch off, but when I release >the scroll lock, I was at the DDB prompt. Not good. > > First - I hope you mean the cards are physically OUT of the machine - it seemed to me that if they had a logical disk configuration on the card, it would hang. Although, it sounds like your problem is different. Actually, it kind of sounds like it thinks you are doing the "-p" boot thing to check for keyboard and roll over to the serial port. Other than that, I'm out of ideas (doesn't take long for that to happen though!).. :( Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------