Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:50:20 -0500 From: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 8.3 hanging on boot, Dell 1950 with mfi and qlogic HBA Message-ID: <5150B88C.4050501@physics.umn.edu>
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I feel sure I'm missing something pretty obvious here but I can't figure out what. I have a Dell 1950 which I just installed 8.3 (amd64) onto. It has an internal OS drive on mfi (Dell PERC) and a qlogic QLE2462 for external SAN connection. Problem is, the machine hangs on boot if the SAN fiber is connected. It boots up fine if disconnected, then I can reconnect the fiber and mount the SAN drives. When booting with fiber connected, it hangs after these messages: kbd3 at ukbd1 kbd3: ukbd1, generic (0), config:0x0, flags:0x3d0000 ums1: <EP2 Interrupt> on usbus1 ums1: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 uhub5: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered (which just look like normal device probes) then if I reboot with the fiber disconnected, the next lines are: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a start_init: trying /sbin/init Verbose boot doesn't seem to give any additional clues. I feel convinced it's failing to find or mount the root filesystem - I've certainly seen this in the past where an add-in HBA like this usurps the internal OS drive, fixable by hard-wiring the bus order in /boot/device.hints. That's what I thought of first here, but mfi doesn't use CAM (I guess), and the OS drive /dev/mfid0 isn't changing its device name... and of course I'm not getting any root mount errors either. Is there part of the boot mechanism I'm missing? Graham -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham Allan School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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