Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:55:15 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <XFMail.20030609075515.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10306061805070.27082-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On 07-Jun-2003 Tom Samplonius wrote: > > I guess I'm not the only one with hardware that is unusable with FreeBSD > 5.x, but FreeBSD 5.x simply is not installable on Dell PowerEdge 6350 > servers. FreeBSD 4.8 works fine on the same hardware. FreeBSD 5.0, > 5.1-BETA1, 5.1-BETA2, and 5.1-RC1 all die in sysinstall is detecting > hardware and drop the machine into the kernel debugger. It also kills the > display, making it tough to catch. I've tried with ACPI off. Same > result. > > I've submitted a PR (#52561), about this problem. I've updated it > recently as I now know the exact point it dies. Since FreeBSD is also > killing the video display, it was initially hard to see. > > Is there is any more information that anyone needs? I wanted to use > 5.1-RELEASE on these machines, but I assume now that 5.1-RELEASE will have > this bug too. Can you hook up a serial console and try again? When the loader does the 10 second countdown, hit space and type 'set console=comconsole'. This will give you a 9600N81 console on COM1 (sio0). Type 'boot' at the OK prompt and you should be able to get the panic mesage. If you can boot a kernel with ddb and get a trace that would be most helpful. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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