From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 21:56:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B52A1065670 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:56:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632438FC19 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Xw5g1i0061zF43QAAxw2sW; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:56:02 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Xxw11i0041t3BNj8kxw159; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:56:01 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0C007102C1E; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:56:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:56:01 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <20120209215600.GA1793@icarus.home.lan> References: <4F343F2D.4040307@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F343F2D.4040307@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:56:02 -0000 On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:48:29PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > does anyone know of problems with freebsd and this system? > > the kernel We tried to boot seems to stop somewhere in the ahci probing. Few things: 1) Possible to get full console output (e.g. serial, etc.) from a verbose boot? 2) Can you also provide the exact release/tag/kernel/thing you're trying to install or upgrade to ("8.x" is a little vague; there are all sorts of changes that happen between tags). For example 8.1 is not going to behave the same necessarily as 8.2. 3) When you say "ahci probing", are you booting a standard installation CD/DVD/memstick of, say, 8.2? If so, those won't make use of the AHCI-to-CAM translation layer (and that AHCI code is also different than the native-ATA-AHCI code), so you might try, when booting the system, dropping to the loader prompt and issuing "load ahci.ko" before typing "boot". See if that helps. If it does, great, use it (ahci_load="yes" in /boot/loader.conf) permanently (and benefit from things like NCQ too). 4) If it's an Intel ESB2 controller, I believe there were some fixes or identification shims put in place for this in recent RELENG_8, which wouldn't be available in RELENG_8_2 or 8.2-RELEASE CD/DVDs. I could be remembering the wrong controller though. Hmm... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |