From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 11:59:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA81F16A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:59:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.kalopa.net (mail.kalopa.net [216.12.200.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5198943D5C for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:59:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dtynan@kalopa.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.kalopa.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kalopa.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with SMTP id iB9BsSuW079944 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:55:53 GMT (envelope-from dtynan@kalopa.com) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:54:28 GMT Message-Id: <200412091155.iB9BsSuW079944@mail.kalopa.net> From: dtynan@kalopa.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problem booting a Compaq Proliant 1600. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:59:37 -0000 I've tried researching this on google and playing around with various things myself to no avail. I should probably submit this as a bug report, but I'm not sure it is... I have a Compaq Proliant 1600 server. It's a large box with four SCSI disks, and (I believe) three controllers. It's a beast. It's currently running 4.3-STABLE quite nicely, but I've been trying to upgrade it to 4.9, 4.10 or 5.3 to no avail. I've tried from CDs and from source. The problem is that when I boot the new kernel, everything looks OK (it's hard to see the dmesg before it scrolls off during boot). However, when it gets to the "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle, it then prompts me for the name of the root filesystem device. Usually, all my disks are mounted under sym0, sym1 or sym2. I see all three devices during the boot but they're not available when I hit '?' in the menu that asks the name of the root FS device. When I boot the 4.3-STABLE kernel, I get the following (normal) operation: Mounting root from ufs:da0s1a da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8678MB (17773500 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) and so on. As a minor quibble, I need to type '2:da(0,a)' at the boot prompt due to some confusion between what the BIOS thinks is device0 and what the kernel thinks is device0 but that's not a big deal, it just prevents auto-booting. Not sure if that makes any difference. Does anyone have any ideas? - Der -- Dermot Tynan Kalopa Media Limited http://www.kalopa.com/