From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 04:55:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2EB37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 04:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail9.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02DF43FAF for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 04:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 4192 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 11:55:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jun 2003 11:55:15 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h59BtEGI004317; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:55:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:55:15 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Tom Samplonius cc: re@FreeBSD.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:55:19 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/