From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 11:21:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7FE16A4CE; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from light.sdf.com (light.sdf.com [207.200.153.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8964243FA3; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by light.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1ARcg4-0007wz-Oh; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:28:48 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:28:48 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20031203112523.M84301@light.sdf.com> References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com> <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: re@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:21:05 -0000 On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that > >will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues. I've never been able > >to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350 > >servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly. I have a PR open > >on it. > > > > So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other > >reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot. > > > > > > Are you using a PERC in those boxes? I've seen issues with PERC > controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine. I received a patch, which > fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world > without rebooting the machine. :) Well, there are so many kinds of PERC cards. Some are just Mylex cards. Others are MegaRAID. I think they use some Adaptec now. Either way, I tried booting the install CD with all cards disconnected, just to see if I could get the installer up to the main menu. No go. The display switches off as soon as sysinstall starts probing devices. It appears to panic, but the display is dead. Once I was able to use scrolllock at the critical moment just before the kernel starts sysinstall, and prevent the display from switch off, but when I release the scroll lock, I was at the DDB prompt. Not good. > Eric > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > All generalizations are false, including this one. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom