From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 17:30:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF17D106566B for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE77F8FC0C for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pADHUDdu056960 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:30:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id pADHUDN7056957; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:30:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:30:13 GMT Message-Id: <201111131730.pADHUDN7056957@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.org From: Sean Bruno Cc: Subject: Re: kern/136327: [sbp] [boot] Asus M3N78-EM motherboard cannot boot with generic kernel. X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean Bruno List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:30:14 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/136327; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sean Bruno To: Chris Whitehouse Cc: "sbruno@FreeBSD.org" , "bug-followup@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: kern/136327: [sbp] [boot] Asus M3N78-EM motherboard cannot boot with generic kernel. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:16:31 -0800 On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 15:48 -0800, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 12/11/2011 20:34, Sean Bruno wrote: > > Can you put this machine up somewhere that I can get into it and have > > root access? > > > > This is a long standing issue with firewire that I'd like to fix if > > possible. > > > > Sean > > > > > I should be able to but I need to check as I don't own my internet > connection. Also I need to set up a fresh install but that won't take long. > > How would we arrange restarts since the machine needs to be physically > turned off and turned on again after a hang and we are in different time > zones? Best I can imagine is you would have to email me and I do it as > soon as I receive it, which could be a while. Or would you be able to > avoid restarts? > > Chris Well, I was going to try and use a kernel without sbp and load sbp as a kmod. I had hoped that I could get a serial console on it as well, but I'd like to see what the machine is like first. Sean