Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: Nicholas Paufler <npaufler@incentre.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/61326: Reboot while booting from 5.2-RELEASE CD Message-ID: <200401131942.i0DJgAaG074478@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200401131950.i0DJoKsq015564@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 61326
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: Reboot while booting from 5.2-RELEASE CD
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 13 11:50:20 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nicholas Paufler
>Release: 5.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
The Internet Centre
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
System is a Supermicro Superserver 5013CT (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SuperServer5013C-T.htm)
I've added in a Promise Fasttrak SATA150 TX2Plus Serial ATA RAID card after I was unable to get the ICH5R SATA onboard working (see PR: 60344), with 2 80gb Seagate SATA drives configured as a RAID mirror.
If I try and boot from any 5.2 ISO (5.2-RC1, 5.2-RC2, or 5.2-RELEASE) the system immediately reboots about half a second into the boot procedure. I don't believe it even gets to the point where it displays anything.
However, a 5.1-RELEASE CD boots just fine and FreeBSD installs flawlessly. Likewise, a 4.9-RELEASE CD also boots fine, however it is not able to detect the controller and thus I can't install.
To work around it, I created some 5.2-RELEASE install floppies and booted off those. There were no problems with booting from floppy, and the 5.2 INSTALL from the same CD worked perfectly.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE from a CD onto (I am assuming) a machine with a Promise Fasttrak SATA raid controller.
>Fix:
It must be something related to the ATAng code that was changed between 5.1 and 5.2, as 5.1 install CD works.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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