From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 12:26:08 2011 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 BEB4F106566B for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:26:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A6D8FC17 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de ([217.29.45.10]) by gate2.intern.punkt.de with ESMTP id p27CQ6uE062520 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:26:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.29.45.147] ([217.29.45.147]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p27CQ6wj079879 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:26:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:26:01 +0100 Message-Id: To: freebsd-stable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Subject: Disable probing of bge1? 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: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:26:08 -0000 Hi, all, I just discovered a minor problem when updating some rather dated systems from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.x or 8.x. The servers are Fujitsu Technology Solutions (former Fujitsu-Siemens) RX100 S4. The current generation of the same system is RX100 S6, so this is two generations old. Some of them still run fine in our datacenter, = though. While the S5 and S6 series features two gigabit ports and an additional network interface for out of band management (called iRMC, similar to = HP's iLO), the S4 has only two gigabit ports and the iRMC interface is piggybacked = to one of them. In our standard setup we disable the first interface in the BIOS. If you = do this, the physical port is available as a dedicated management interface to = the iRMC and only the second IF is probed by FreeBSD 6.x as bge0. Now I try to PXE boot an identically configured system via the remote = serial console with FreeBSD 7. Everything runs fine, until the kernel probes = the network interfaces. The last thing I see are messages about successful probing of both bge0 and bge1 and then my remote management connection and my console are gone. I have to reset the BMC by literally pulling the power to get the iRMC = back. Is it possible to use some device.hints entry to prohibit the probing of = bge1? I think that would be the easiest solution to the problem? Other = suggestions are of course welcome. I can provide more config details and dmesg = output if needed. Thanks, Patrick --=20 punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: J=FCrgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285