Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:37:09 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying >2.2.5 oddity on reboot. Message-ID: <199810180237.UAA12379@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199810180144.SAA08806@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 17, 98 06:44:53 pm"
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Mike Smith wrote...
> >
> >
> > I have a bunch of DEC ZX and HX 6000 P6 boxes. Have been running 2.2.5
> > for heap 'um big long time, zero troubles.
> >
> > So I upgraded 2 of them to -stable as of yesterday.
^^^^^^^^^^
> > Now neither of them will reboot properly. They shutdown, and get to the
> > stage where they should start reloading, and they just hang.
> >
> > I've tried a couple different BIOS revs, and nothing seems to help.
> >
> > (These boxes have PCI and EISA slots).
> >
> > Drop back to 2.2.5 kernel, and they reboot just fine.
> >
> > Anybody have any idea what may be wrong? Driving down tot he office just
> > to finish off a shutdown -r is a big unusability factor.
> >
> > The chipsets on the boxes are orion and neptune as I recall.
> >
> > A veeeeery old 3.0 (august of last year I think) runs fine in SMP and
> > reboots properly.
> >
> > Thanks for any tips.
>
> If these are SCSI systems, and if the hang is about where the SCSI BIOS
> should be loading from the disk, it may be that CAM is putting the SCSI
^^^
CAM is not in -stable.
> controllers into a state the BIOS doesn't know how to get them out of.
>
> If so, have you tried updating the SCSI controller BIOSsen as well?
> Have you tried a 2.2.7-CAM kernel?
That's a good thing to try. There's a full release here:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/development/cam/...
Ken
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