From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 04:12:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE16616A4DA for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:12:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@carrollkong.com) Received: from mail.faerunconsulting.com (vzdsl-jcnj-216-182-31-61.static.tellurian.net [216.182.31.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2244F43D46 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:12:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@carrollkong.com) Received: (qmail 85838 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2006 04:12:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO athena) (192.168.0.2) by dmz.faerunhome.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2006 04:12:50 -0000 From: "Carroll Kong" To: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:12:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Thread-Index: AcbFoTsNUm9TTDiWTguf3DCnu82n4w== Message-Id: <20060822041250.2244F43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: me@carrollkong.com Subject: LSI-MegaRAID 150-4 BTX Halted on 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:12:51 -0000 I am trying to install FreeBSD on a new Intel Server SE7230NH1-E using a PCI-X riser card on the Intel S1475 chassis, pentium D 3.2 gig dual core proc 940. Whenever I try to install using the CDROM for 5.4, 5.5, and 6.1... BTX halts immediately. The second I remove the card, the system boots up fine. In fact, I was able to install 6.1 on one of the SATA disks on there. However, once I put the card back, BTX Halts. BTX Halts even if I remove all logical drives on the array (making it completely empty and it does not show up as a disk at all in the BTX Bios). I even disabled the card's BIOS mode, and it still halts. Since FreeBSD 5.4 supports the LSI Megaraid 150-4, I suspect it might be the riser card doing interesting things. I highly doubt hardware is the issue since I was able to install CentOS without a hitch (eek, I really don't want to use it though... unless Vmware can run a freebsd box from it). Of course, the possibility of Linux ignoring potentially critical errors is another possibility. :) Just a wild guess here since I have no real hardware programming experience. I really think it is the riser card probably doing some different alignment. I cannot test the card without the riser (it's a weird board that needs the riser card to 'automatically' mix to the right modes I think?). Here is the BTX dump. It is copied verbatim from a screen shot. (hopefully I wrote it out exactly) int=0000000d err=00000013 efl=00030402 eip=0000554d eax=00000204 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000001 edx=00001421 esi=00000008 edi=00000008 ebp=00000000 esp=0000040c cs=f000 ds=3ec9 es=44b0 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e4c cs:eip=e6 e4 e4 71 c3 53 b7 00-eb 08 53 b7 01 eb 03 53 b7 02 9c fa 8a d8 8a c4-e8 e3 ff 80 ff 00 75 04 ss:esp=36 54 4a 91 00 00 96 02-b4 11 05 00 44 1d 05 00 f8 48 09 00 84 9c 00 00-00 00 00 00 b4 11 05 00 So, I CAN boot into FreeBSD 6.1 if I remove the card. If I need to recompile something, it should be doable. Thanks in advance guys! - Carroll Kong