Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:07:00 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Carroll Kong" <me@carrollkong.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI-MegaRAID 150-4 BTX Halted on 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 Message-ID: <200608221707.00691.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060822204409.6D6D743D7E@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20060822204409.6D6D743D7E@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:44, Carroll Kong wrote: > > -----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). The TSS is a software thing. For it to be corrupted means random memory corruption. The difference between FreeBSD and Linux is that FreeBSD has the /boot/loader which runs in protected mode and runs the BIOS in vm86 mode, whereas the Linux boot stays in real mode until it starts up the kernel. -- John Baldwin
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