From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 11:41:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27B416A41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out3.tiscali.nl (smtp-out3.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E4C13C4AC for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from [195.241.149.28] (helo=guido.klop.ws) by smtp-out3.tiscali.nl with smtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1Iq5M4-0006TW-Ax for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:15:24 +0100 Received: (qmail 28642 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2007 11:15:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO guido.klop.ws) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Nov 2007 11:15:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:15:22 +0100 To: "Jack Vogel" , "FreeBSD Current" , "FreeBSD Stable List" From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2a41acea0711071617p1ec29072y76b6ce662961ab39@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0711071617p1ec29072y76b6ce662961ab39@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.24 (FreeBSD) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:45:55 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Bringing up new Intel non-legacy system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:41:20 -0000 On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:17:16 +0100, Jack Vogel wrote: > Although I'm a network guy, for various reasons I am helping to get > FreeBSD running on a new Intel system: S7000FC4UR. This is a > rack-mount server that has no PS/2 or PCI legacy, its all PCI-E > expansion, and only USB peripheral. I have had a lot of issues: > > First, the DVD is SATA, however I can work around that by setting > IDE mode in the BIOS. > > With FreeBSD 7 BETA the install kernel always seems to hang > in USB initialization, if I disable ACPI it gets further, but ultimately > still no joy. > > Oddly enough, STABLE OCT snapshot will actually install but > again only with ACPI disabled. > > Anyone have an idea why 6.X would actually faire better than 7, > this surprised me?! > > And, is the ACPI subsystem likely to be the source of the problem? > > I would really prefer 7 running on this, and of course with ACPI > working. > > Oh, the system also has LSI MegaRaid SAS 1078, which I was > able to install using STABLE. > > Cheers, > > Jack My computer at home (6.2-STABLE/i386) hangs on usb if my external harddisk is attached. But since I disabled USB in the BIOS it works fine. FreeBSD does still detect USB, so I think it was some conflict between BIOS initializing the hardware and FreeBSD doing that. Maybe you have the same problem. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands