From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 11:06:15 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 A989216A4CE; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9649943FE0; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:06:11 -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 hB2J696T013430; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:06:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:05:53 -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> In-Reply-To: <20031202104513.C84301@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: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:06:15 -0000 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. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------