Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:31:08 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bug Report: IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e): install fails with NMI Message-ID: <1346171468.3526.2.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20120828125956.GA64922@mikea.ath.cx> References: <20120828125956.GA64922@mikea.ath.cx>
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On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 05:59 -0700, Mike A wrote: > Hi. I'm posting this bug report here at the suggestion of Andriy Gapon, > of the freebsd-amd64 list. > > The machine is, as stated in the Subject header, a shiny new > IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e) > > I just got handed 4 of the subject boxes with instructions "put 'em to > work". Naturally I tried FreeBSD first, on one of the machines. Boot from > the 9.0 AMD64 boot-only install CD fails. Things look fine until the last > several lines of the (verbose enabled) boot sequence, which (from an > insufficiently-wide phone camera capture) are: > > " > mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0x3000-0x[lost off right edge of phone] > xc5d00000-0xc5deffff irq 34 at device 0.0 on pci[lost] > mpt0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 su[lost] > msi: routing MSI IRQ 256 to local APIC 0 vector [lost] > mpt0: using IRQ 256 for MSI > mpt0: soft reset failed, device not running > NMI ISA 2c, EISA 0 > NMI ... going to debugger > mpt0: hard reset failed > " > > after which the firmware reinitializes the system and the sequence starts > over, totally repeatable. > > The IBM literature says the RAID adapter is an IBM ServeRaid M5110e, the > RAID configuration firmware calls it a MegaRaid, and FreeBSD identifies it > as an LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter. I don't know what it really is, but it's > getting in the way and not playing nicely. > > I'd really like to add these to the stable, and particularly want to run > them in 64-bit mode; 32-bit just isn't roomy enough. This isn't my first > rodeo. > > If this is an appropriate venue, then what do you need from me? What > can I do to help get this set of problems solved? Or have I just got > incompatible, unsupported hardware? If it's not the right venue, then a > (flameless) pointer to the appropriate venue will be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks, from > Can you grab an 9.1-RC ISO and try that on this host? Sean ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/
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