Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:20:11 GMT From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/136327: [sbp] [boot] Asus M3N78-EM motherboard cannot boot with generic kernel. Message-ID: <201111132120.pADLKBRw071348@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/136327; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: "sbruno@FreeBSD.org" <sbruno@FreeBSD.org>, "bug-followup@FreeBSD.org" <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: kern/136327: [sbp] [boot] Asus M3N78-EM motherboard cannot boot with generic kernel. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:57 +0000 On 13/11/2011 17:16, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 15:48 -0800, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> On 12/11/2011 20:34, Sean Bruno wrote: >>> Can you put this machine up somewhere that I can get into it and have >>> root access? >>> >>> This is a long standing issue with firewire that I'd like to fix if >>> possible. >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >> I should be able to but I need to check as I don't own my internet >> connection. Also I need to set up a fresh install but that won't take long. >> >> How would we arrange restarts since the machine needs to be physically >> turned off and turned on again after a hang and we are in different time >> zones? Best I can imagine is you would have to email me and I do it as >> soon as I receive it, which could be a while. Or would you be able to >> avoid restarts? >> >> Chris > > Well, I was going to try and use a kernel without sbp and load sbp as a > kmod. I had hoped that I could get a serial console on it as well, but > I'd like to see what the machine is like first. > > Sean > > Hi, should be up now, I'm sending details offlist. Firewire is enabled in BIOS and I rebuilt the kernel with device sbp disabled. #kldload sbp seems to work, as in it loads and doesn't crash the machine but I don't have any devices to hand to test further than that. Chris
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