From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 20:44:20 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 9046D16A4E5 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:44:20 +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 BE7A543D68 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:44:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@carrollkong.com) Received: (qmail 7501 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2006 20:44:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO athena) (192.168.0.2) by dmz.faerunhome.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2006 20:44:09 -0000 From: "Carroll Kong" To: "'John Baldwin'" , Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:44:09 -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 In-Reply-To: <200608221507.19679.jhb@freebsd.org> Thread-Index: AcbGJarntA0tbMqPQ5aWd3d+qgT4TAABYE3Q Message-Id: <20060822204409.BE7A543D68@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: Subject: RE: 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 20:44:20 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb@freebsd.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:07 PM > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Cc: Carroll Kong > Subject: Re: LSI-MegaRAID 150-4 BTX Halted on 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 > > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:12, Carroll Kong wrote: > > 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! > > Hmmm. This is quite odd. The instruction is one that should > be allowed: > > 00000000 E6E4 out 0xe4,al > 00000002 E471 in al,0x71 > 00000004 C3 ret > > My guess is that somehow the TSS has been corrupted. Many > years ago Mike Smith was running into weirdness with a RAID > BIOS (not amr(4) I don't think, maybe mlx(4)) that was > somehow corrupting the TSS. I don't know if he ever managed > to solve it. > > -- > John Baldwin Forgive me for my ignorance, but what is a TSS? Also, I told the card to disable it's BIOS during bootup, and it still zonked. I even removed all the logical drives (so there was no RAID array) just to see if it would boot, it would still zonk! Only if I physically removed it, would it work. I figured, at that point why would BTX even care about the RAID controller? It's not being asked to boot from it anymore. Oddly enough, CentOS is working great on it now. I have 2 Vmware guests running... you guessed it -- FreeBSD 6.1. However, if this TSS sounds like a hardware issue, I will probably have to do more burn-in tests to ensure it is not just the linux driver "ignoring" something. I also wonder if this would have been easier if I just went with the LSI Megaraid SCSI controller instead. I went with the SATA version since it was supposedly well supported by FreeBSD 5.4. Although, I am more likely to blame the riser card for confusing FreeBSD, I do not believe I have a hardware issue like the other gentlemen. (I have reinstalled the OSes and guest OSes multiple times). - Carroll Kong