From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 19:27:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7BE1065674 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:27:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flo@smeets.im) Received: from mail.solomo.de (mail.solomo.de [IPv6:2a01:238:42c7:9a00::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9A28FC1B for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.solomo.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.solomo.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DB35C62; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:27:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vistream.de Received: from mail.solomo.de ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.solomo.de (mail.solomo.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kX82eU0ANeBj; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:27:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.122] (p50914346.dip.t-dialin.net [80.145.67.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.solomo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3A3C5C51; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:27:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CB4B6A9.8080007@smeets.im> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:27:37 +0200 From: Florian Smeets User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Caron References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No disks found on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on Sun X4500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:27:42 -0000 On 12.10.10 20:38, Sean Caron wrote: > Hi folks, > Hi, > I've been contracted to try and get FreeBSD up and running on a Sun Fire > X4500 "thumper" type system. It's been claimed as far back as 2007 that > this system is apparently supported with no major issues: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2007-May/003165.html > > However in trying both FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, 8.1-STABLE (9/2010), and > 7.3-STABLE (9/2010), I am getting the exact same failure mode as this > fellow: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14887 > > The system boots up, I don't see anything pertaining to disks at all in > the boot messages, and, unsurprisingly the installer claims that no > disks are found. > > I've tried this just booting normally, hitting "6" at the boot menu and > manually loading the mvs driver: > > load mvs > boot > On 8.1 try set hw.hptrr.attach_generic=0 load mvs boot After I set hw.hptrr.attach_generic to 0 mvs found all my disk. Without it I had the same problem you describe. HTH, Florian