Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:27:37 +0200 From: Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.im> To: Sean Caron <scaron@diablonet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No disks found on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on Sun X4500 Message-ID: <4CB4B6A9.8080007@smeets.im> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.1010121426410.86800@sonnet.diablonet.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.64.1010121426410.86800@sonnet.diablonet.net>
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On 12.10.10 20:38, Sean Caron wrote: > Hi folks, > Hi, > I've been contracted to try and get FreeBSD up and running on a Sun Fire > X4500 "thumper" type system. It's been claimed as far back as 2007 that > this system is apparently supported with no major issues: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2007-May/003165.html > > However in trying both FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, 8.1-STABLE (9/2010), and > 7.3-STABLE (9/2010), I am getting the exact same failure mode as this > fellow: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14887 > > The system boots up, I don't see anything pertaining to disks at all in > the boot messages, and, unsurprisingly the installer claims that no > disks are found. > > I've tried this just booting normally, hitting "6" at the boot menu and > manually loading the mvs driver: > > load mvs > boot > On 8.1 try set hw.hptrr.attach_generic=0 load mvs boot After I set hw.hptrr.attach_generic to 0 mvs found all my disk. Without it I had the same problem you describe. HTH, Florian
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