Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:05:45 +0100 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem Message-ID: <1125428745.6664.37.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been having are: 1. When I recompiled the Kernel with SMP support, I get random reboots. It also fails to boot sometimes failing at the point after waiting for the scsi drives to settle. I get some error codes and Fbsd fails to find the boot device. 2. I CVSuped to 5.4 release #2 and recompiled the Kernel with SMP support. This does to boot at all. It gets as far as the waiting 15s for scsi devices to settle, then (appears to) reset the scsi controller and immediately tries to access the drives (does not wait). I have tried recompiling with scsi_delay set to 30000 (30s) with no change. I have checked dmesg and message logs but there is nothing related to the problem(s) there. I have gone back to the 5.4 release #0 single processor kernel for now which is a shame as the machine is slow without the multi processor support. The only thing out of the ordinary I have noted is a tx underunn -- increasing threshold to 512 bytes message which appears related to running kde remotely via vncserver and tinync. Any ideas, I can send conf files etc if needed. Thanks Rob
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