From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 15:54:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DFA331B for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.smtpout.orange.fr (smtp04.smtpout.orange.fr [80.12.242.126]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5C11F9D for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([92.156.227.89]) by mwinf5d59 with ME id qfuL1n00T1wMtbQ03fuLyv; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0200 X-ME-Helo: localhost X-ME-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0200 X-ME-IP: 92.156.227.89 Message-ID: <534EA7AC.8060808@orange.fr> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:54:20 +0200 From: Claude Buisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Subject: Re: Unable to mount the root fs on stable/8 r264339, GENERIC kernel, with MBR, FreeBSD slice, and UFS volume labels References: <534E5058.20106@orange.fr> <201404161038.55512.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201404161038.55512.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:54:24 -0000 On 04/16/2014 16:38, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 5:41:44 am Claude Buisson wrote: >> On 04/16/2014 10:09, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:44+0200, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:38+0200, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have a couple of uncritical systems running stable/8 r258344. >>>>> Hardware is Dell OptiPlex GX260, BIOS A09, which is the latest rev.= >>>>> >>>>> The r264339 GENERIC kernel are unable to mount the root fs from the= >>>>> hard drive using MBR, FreeBSD slice, and UFS volume labels. >>>>> >>>>> r258344 obviously can. >>>>> >>>>> I even tried regular device names like /dev/ad0s1a in /etc/fstab, a= nd >>>>> at the mountroot> prompt, i.e. ufs:/dev/ad0s1a. The kernel still >>>>> cannot mount the root fs. >>>>> >>>>> The new kernel (r264339) does recognize the ad0 harddrive, and ad0 = is >>>>> listed as one of the GEOM managed disk devices; acd0 being the othe= r >>>>> one. >>>>> >>>>> Do I need to load additional geom modules, or is it a genuine bug? >>>>> >>>>> I have recreated the same conditions on a spare GX260, yes, I have >>>>> plenty of them. >>>> >>>> I believe I have identified r262226 as the offending commit. >>>> >>>> Maybe the flags integer is set to a bad value before the calls to >>>> resource_list_alloc(). >>>> >>>> My spare system is currently recompiling r262221 of both world and >>>> kernel, and I hope to confirm this assumption in a few hours. >>> >>> Confirmed. >>> >>>> If all goes well, I intend to move forward to the latest revision of= >>>> stable/8, back out the change done to sys/dev/pci/pci.c in r262226, >>>> recompile world and kernel, install the kernel, and if successfully,= >>>> I'll install world as well. >>> >>> Confirmed, stable/8 r264519 with r262226 backed out does indeed work >>> on a Dell OptiPlex GX260, BIOS A09. >>> >> >> Just another data point related to r262226: >> >> Yesterday, I upgraded a stable/8 system from r260539 to r264426, which= could not >> finish booting. In my case, it stopped just after detecting an agp car= d (and >> could boot if agp was disabled by device.hints). >> >> Reverting r262226 gave me back a fully usable system. >> >> This system is also a Dell, but a (oldish) Dimension 4550 BIOS A08. >> >>> Any chance anyone would like to dig deeper into the matter? >>> Should I file a PR? >>> >> >> I think so, if jhb (cced) keep being interested in stable/8.. >> >> BTW, this morning I succeeded in booting a stable/10 snapshot r264194 = USB stick >> on this machine. > > Can you get a verbose dmesg with and without the change? > If r262226 is not reverted, the only way to boot and have a verbose dmesg= is to=20 disable agp. Is it OK ? CBu