Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:43:55 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Urgent problem - 7.x doesn't work on HP servers Message-ID: <20080218194355.GZ87650@evil.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20080218163118.V49202@fledge.watson.org> References: <fpbrkj$8si$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080218163118.V49202@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:34:31PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >I've again encountered the problem of FreeBSD 7 not wanting to boot on a > >HP server. The last time was early in 7.x development on a HP blade > >(2xdual-core Opteron), without any solution (reported on this list about a > >year ago). This time it's on a ML 350 G5 machine, with a quad-core Xeon. > > > >The problem is very hard to diagnose - the entire machine locks up during > >pci bus/device detection - the kernel debugger doesn't work, the keyboard > >lights (PS/2 keyboard) don't work, it's completely frozen. > > > >This is on both i386 and AMD64 kernels. > > > >The machine freezes after detecting pcib6. The working 6.x kernel detects > >upto pcib16, and the first device detected after pcib6 is the CISS > >controller, so maybe it's the controller driver, but the first machine > >(the blade) didn't have CISS controllers. > > FYI, I'm not seeing anything like this on the two DL 145 boxes I'm using > for 10gbps testing with 7.x / 8.x. I did have problems with at least a > couple of the BIOS revs in the past, so I'd repeat the advice offered > elsewhere in the thread and make sure that it's up-to-date. There was one > BIOS rev where I couldn't use a boot loader cross-built from i386 to amd64, > but both the i386 boot loader and the natively built amd64 boot loader > worked fine. The BIOS upgrade made the problem entirely go away, go > figure... > > Otherwise, you're probably down to the printf model for debugging, unless > you have an NMI button that can get into DDB? Mine have NMI buttons on the > botherboard, I believe, but it requires opening the case to get to. You can generate NMI from the iLO and iLO2 interface. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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