From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 03:41:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E6916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 03:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC6043D4C for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 03:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i47Af0Zq014612; Fri, 7 May 2004 13:41:00 +0300 Message-Id: <200405071041.i47Af0Zq014612@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 7 May 04 13:41:01 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 7 May 04 13:40:38 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:40:31 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200405061743.i46HhGaX028476@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200405061308.i46D8Noe014487@lv.raad.tartu.ee> cc: david@fielden.com.au Subject: Re: Netfinity 5000 and 5.2.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:41:26 -0000 Hello! Yesterday I wrote: > Earlier today, I wrote: > > > So, I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on IBM Netfinity 5000 and I'm not > > having much luck. Before going into great technical detail (ha!) and > > frustrating stories of my failures, I just thought to ask, is anyone > > at all running this combination successfully? > > I can now report that it's working. At least so far. The key to success > was a tip I found after digging the IBM website - to make sure in BIOS > setup that *both* Planar SCSI INTA and Planar SCSI INTB are routed to > IRQ15 and none of the adapters in any of the PCI slots are routed to > IRQ15. OK, I eventually had to hard-wire *all* the PCI IRQs, because when I left most of them on "auto" and set only the SCSI ones manually it seems that different IRQs get assigned to different devices on each boot and if the combination is not the winning one, the FreeBSD boot process ends with NMI and the system reboots ca 10 seconds after finishing the boot-up. I tried a lot of combinations and finally found one that works for me: Planar SCSI Channel A: IRQ 15 Planar SCSI Channel B: IRQ 15 Planar Ethernet: IRQ 10 Planar Video: IRQ 9 Planar USB: IRQ 5 ServeRAID in PCI Slot 5: IRQ 11 -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Testicle -- n., a humorous question to an exam.