From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 20:10:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C0216A473; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: from mail.alameda.net (mail.alameda.net [194.55.105.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B4613C4D9; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: by mail.alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A3D0233D3F; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:43:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:43:55 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20080218194355.GZ87650@evil.alameda.net> References: <20080218163118.V49202@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080218163118.V49202@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-ANI-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ANI-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ANI-MailScanner-From: ulf@alameda.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Urgent problem - 7.x doesn't work on HP servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:10:35 -0000 On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:34:31PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >I've again encountered the problem of FreeBSD 7 not wanting to boot on a > >HP server. The last time was early in 7.x development on a HP blade > >(2xdual-core Opteron), without any solution (reported on this list about a > >year ago). This time it's on a ML 350 G5 machine, with a quad-core Xeon. > > > >The problem is very hard to diagnose - the entire machine locks up during > >pci bus/device detection - the kernel debugger doesn't work, the keyboard > >lights (PS/2 keyboard) don't work, it's completely frozen. > > > >This is on both i386 and AMD64 kernels. > > > >The machine freezes after detecting pcib6. The working 6.x kernel detects > >upto pcib16, and the first device detected after pcib6 is the CISS > >controller, so maybe it's the controller driver, but the first machine > >(the blade) didn't have CISS controllers. > > FYI, I'm not seeing anything like this on the two DL 145 boxes I'm using > for 10gbps testing with 7.x / 8.x. I did have problems with at least a > couple of the BIOS revs in the past, so I'd repeat the advice offered > elsewhere in the thread and make sure that it's up-to-date. There was one > BIOS rev where I couldn't use a boot loader cross-built from i386 to amd64, > but both the i386 boot loader and the natively built amd64 boot loader > worked fine. The BIOS upgrade made the problem entirely go away, go > figure... > > Otherwise, you're probably down to the printf model for debugging, unless > you have an NMI button that can get into DDB? Mine have NMI buttons on the > botherboard, I believe, but it requires opening the case to get to. You can generate NMI from the iLO and iLO2 interface. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html