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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:59:23 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gunther Schadow <gunther@schadow.us>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64/144503: 8.0-RELEASE does not boot on DL585
Message-ID:  <201003080759.23547.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201003060310.o263AB9k089662@www.freebsd.org>
References:  <201003060310.o263AB9k089662@www.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 05 March 2010 10:10:11 pm Gunther Schadow wrote:
> 
> >Number:         144503
> >Category:       amd64
> >Synopsis:       8.0-RELEASE does not boot on DL585
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       critical
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 06 03:20:01 UTC 2010
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Gunther Schadow
> >Release:        8.0-RELEASE
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> 8.0-RELEASE
> GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> >Description:
> System does not boot, neither from freebsd-upgrade nor from boot CD. 
> With or without ACPI or APIC it always gets stuck at the line where 
> the pci0 <PCI bus> is being probed.
> 
> I am running 7.0 just fine. Skipped over 7.1 and 7.2 thought 8.0 was 
> time to upgrade, but it does not boot.
> 
> Not sure if there are any other people with DL585s, I have 3 (more 
> actually) and neither of them boots.
> 
> May be 32 GB of RAM is too much for it? Nothing else special. 
> There is QLogic ISP card in the PCI bus, but can that halt it?
> 
> I tried to boot with verbose mode, but not much comes out of that.
> It just gets stuck.

Can you try setting 'hw.pci.mcfg=0' from the loader prompt?

-- 
John Baldwin



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