Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:08:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DOH! Something PCI-related recently broken in -STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108171702050.66943-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <200108172134.f7HLYDW44752@harmony.village.org>
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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
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