From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 16:45:53 2004 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 D81A116A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:45:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDB243D2F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A06A372DBF; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADB372DB5; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Carl Makin In-Reply-To: <4021779E.4010807@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Message-ID: <20040204164438.B96240@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <401EE12F.4070005@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <4021779E.4010807@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-CURRENT on an IBM NAS 300G. 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: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:45:54 -0000 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Carl Makin wrote: > >Try booting -v and see how much farther it gets. On my -current box, > >right after that is the pcibios/PIR probe, then the ACPI tree walk to > >attach devices. Its possible the ACPI code in your system is fatally > >flawed. > > > I think that's it. Weirdly it occasionally booted right through but > that was very rare. Following the instructions on the FreeBSD ACPI > website I dumped the code and recompiled it with iasl. It found one > warning about not returning a value to a function which a linux website > noted which I fixed. > > With the new DSDT.asl installed it seems to boot on the second attempt. > It just hung on the "Timecounter" line again, but a reset then a verbose > boot and its booted all the way. neat. > Its now complaining of > > can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE > > It gives the same error message for PCI1 and PCI2 as well. My X335 does this, so its some wierdness in the ACPI that I didn't want to spend time debugging. Didn't seem to cause any major harm. > >Have you tried upgrading the BIOS? > > > > > Not yet. I'll look and see if that is possible. One problem is that > this box is designed and sold by IBM to run win2k as a NAS. IMNSHO it > would be criminally negligent to run Win2K as a NAS so we've never put > it into production. It's not supported like a normal PC and the IBM > website is pretty bad. heh. :) > I was hoping to use it as my desktop machine as it has dual 1.1Ghz PIII > Xeons but but it's way too noisy, so if I can't get the fan speeds > lowered then I guess I'll just disable ACPI and install it into the > computer room as a 5.2 test box. :) Good way to go. Xeons take massive airflow anyway, even if you could control them you may not be able to reduce the speed to workable levels. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org