From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 07:01:58 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 DA10337B401; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BEA43FAF; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 19PLbn-0003Bh-00; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 05:18:43 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 05:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 14:01:59 -0000 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Tom Samplonius writes: > > 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. > > What chipset does this machine use? I'm not sure. FreeBSD 4.8 does work on the machine, and I posted the 4.8 dmesg into the PR (#52561). There aren't too many quad Xeon chipsets... probably Intel or Serverworks. > I've recently seen similar problems on a friend's i810-based Toshiba > Equium 3100M - with 4.7, 5.1, and some unknown incarnation of RedHat. > I tried upgrading the BIOS and resetting it to "safe" defaults on the > off chance that it was some kind of power management bug, to no avail. > Immediately after sysinstall comes up and starts probing devices, the > display goes blank, but the machine doesn't shut down - the PSU fan, > CD-ROM and harddisk keep spinning. I can't remember whether the CPU > fan stopped. Unfortunately, I didn't have a serial console available. I've tried serial console as well (with 5.1-RC1), and it just stops after probing the disks. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org Tom