Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:25:07 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver Message-ID: <4B083083.4000907@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90911181444r6c3969efr835d94058a08e00c@mail.gmail.com> References: <ade45ae90911181406q3f205cdre521280a81059ccb@mail.gmail.com> <ade45ae90911181444r6c3969efr835d94058a08e00c@mail.gmail.com>
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Tim Judd wrote: > Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can > disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) > Install CD/DVDs? > > more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup > due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of this one. > > > > Any advice from the pros? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Tim, I've got one of the affected motherboards if this is the problem you mean: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 The things that have worked for me are disabling firewire in the BIOS and using a GENERIC kernel or building a kernel with device sbp disabled and having firewire enabled in the BIOS. hint.sbp.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints with GENERIC kernel - still get a panic sbp_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf with sbp disabled in the kernel - get panic. It seems ok to kldload sbp after the system is up, ie the machine doesn't panic, but I don't have anything firewire to test with. Would it be an option to have sbp disabled by default in the install CD's? Those without the problem can put sbp_load in loader.conf, those with the problem will have to kldload it later but at least they will be able to install. FreeBSD eco.config 8.0-RC2 FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 #1: Thu Oct 29 14:04:02 GMT 2009 root@eco.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_NO_SBP i386 Chris
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