From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 03:12:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CAB1065674 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:12:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E321E8FC1F for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:12:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF9CB1CC06A; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:12:31 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dave Overton Message-ID: <20080326031231.GA69647@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <007501c88edf$5f274740$26714dd1@syix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007501c88edf$5f274740$26714dd1@syix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD 6 or 7 + Intel 3200 MCH chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:12:32 -0000 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:19:00PM -0700, Dave Overton wrote: > Just put together a nice 1U box, Tyan Tank GT20, plugged in its 8gb ECC RAM, > its 4 shiney new HDs and fired it up. Bios looks normal, reset the clock to > something resembling today, and throw in the Fbsd7 disk! > > No joy. > > I get just a hint of a "booting" line, then an instant reboot, or with a 6 > disk, I get a scrolling mess that I have no idea what it says. Sounds like bootloader/BTX problems. The "scrolling mess" is probably a register dump; another common one is a sporadic reboot, case in point. Don't let the 2nd thread below make you think "USB pen drives have nothing to do with my server"; BTX is used everywhere: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-March/041272.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-March/041112.html John Baldwin just recently committed some fixes in this regard, to both CURRENT, RELENG_6, and RELENG_7, which might fix the problem you're seeing. No promises though. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/ The commit to CURRENT was done on March 10th. The commit to RELENG_7 was done on March 18th. The commit to RELENG_6 was done on March 18th. I'd recommend trying out one of the snapshot ISOs, except that all of the ISOs are from March 11th, which means the only images which *might* have the fixes applied are for CURRENT. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200803/ If you're feeling spunky, I'd try the CURRENT bootonly snapshot solely to see if it boots for you. I would NOT recommend installing CURRENT on your brand new production server. :-) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200803/8.0-CURRENT-200803-amd64-bootonly.iso I can't guarantee that the ISO will fix the problem for you; it's possible the ISO was made based on code from prior to March 10th, and it's also possible the problem you're having are unrelated to the the fixes John did. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |