From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 17 15:10:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18DD37B406 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA68958; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:08:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:08:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Warner Losh Cc: Subject: Re: DOH! Something PCI-related recently broken in -STABLE In-Reply-To: <200108172134.f7HLYDW44752@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > I posted some patches against the latest -stable > (http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/no-hang.diff.4) that it would be > nice if you could try. Boot with and without them. You should be > told your BIOS version (actually, the level of the PCI spec that > your BIOS supports) with them. If you get a hang, then you can > set hw.pci.ignore_pcibios=1 at the loader prompt (set hw...=1) to > see if that causes the problem to go away. This isn't actually a hang that I or the other person am seeing, just a lack of detection of a lot of devices, which usually includes the drive controller that is holding the root disk and thus causing the boot failure. I noticed we now get this neat prompt that lets us try to find another root instead of panicing that the root wasn't found. I like that, whoever added it, if you're listening. :-) I'm off to test the patch before I upgrade the BIOS, then upgrade the BIOS and test both patched and unpatched kernels. Give me about 45 minutes. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message