Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 01:11:15 -0400 From: "Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra" <ketrien@error404.nls.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Tyan S4882 vs [5.2.1,5.3-BETA1] Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20040902005351.033dfec0@mail.nls.net>
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I was working on this with obrien@ earlier this week, but he seems to have vanished. And in the meantime, I'm getting nowhere fast. First off, the nitty gritty. Board's a Tyan S4882, BIOS 1.0.0 and 1.0.2 attempted. (Tyan support implied that NUMEROUS bugfixes were implemented in 1.0.2.) Four 848's. Eight 1GB PC3200's from ATP, 2 per CPU. LSI Ultra320-0 in PCI-X 4 (ZCR.) No, this is not my first Opteron nor is it my first quad. This is just being a real pain about it. So, 5.2.1-RELEASE. You know the caveats - no ACPI, and it boots. Don't leave sysinstall sitting or install more than base, the box will panic(). Don't even think about walking away, it'll panic(). It's enough to get started though. Install base, drag down the rest, everything is happy. Except for this system. It's good for one boot off the drive, then: ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Every time without fail. Boot from CD, verify that the disk is intact, try again, and still can't find rootvp. The system also panics once >1GB of memory is used, ie; buildworld. vm_fault: fault in nofault entry, presuming you've booted it. At this point, I've written off 5.2.1-RELEASE because of the vm_fault panic()s. 5.3-BETA1 has been a real nightmare. I tried it per obrien's recommendation. Bad idea. ata is instant unusable panic (0xdeded...) and the same for acpi, but that's expected. So I set up a PXEboot environment using the 5.3-BETA1 miniinst. It boots. It installs. It panic()s if you don't watch the install carefully. (sysinstall also likes to down bge0 for no reason, but that's a story for another time.) I get it installed. It boots consistently, no more ffs_mountroot woes. However, it won't go past init. Just locks hard. Can't enter debugger, can't NMI, it's just plain locked. I can reproduce it consistently. I've gone through every possible BIOS setting. Onboard IDE and SATA are disabled. I've flipped every setting possible. ccNUMA, Bank Interleave, HPET on and off, you name it, I have tried it. Nothing changes. It just locks hard. Any suggestions? I am completely stumped at this point. Everything I've tried so far is just getting me back to the same places - panic()s or locks. Thanks. Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra "I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast." -Steven Wright
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