Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:05:53 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com> References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com>
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Tom wrote: > Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that >will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues. I've never been able >to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350 >servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly. I have a PR open >on it. > > So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other >reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot. > > Are you using a PERC in those boxes? I've seen issues with PERC controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine. I received a patch, which fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world without rebooting the machine. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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