From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 21:15:42 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 88E6016A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5720443FDD for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 40541 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Dec 2003 05:15:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 05:15:38 -0000 Message-ID: <3FD01437.6090103@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:14:31 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com> <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com> <20031203112523.M84301@light.sdf.com> <3FCE39B6.1040305@centtech.com> <20031203235711.D84301@light.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <20031203235711.D84301@light.sdf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: re@freebsd.org cc: Eric Anderson 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: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:15:42 -0000 Tom wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote: > > ... > >>> Well, there are so many kinds of PERC cards. Some are just Mylex cards. >>>Others are MegaRAID. I think they use some Adaptec now. >>> >> >>My troubles were with the MegaRAID variant, I'm not sure about the others.. >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >>First - I hope you mean the cards are physically OUT of the machine - it >>seemed to me that if they had a logical disk configuration on the card, >>it would hang. Although, it sounds like your problem is different. >>Actually, it kind of sounds like it thinks you are doing the "-p" boot >>thing to check for keyboard and roll over to the serial port. Other >>than that, I'm out of ideas (doesn't take long for that to happen >>though!).. :( > > > Yes, the cards are physically out of the machine. > > "-p" seems unlikely, since the display is literally shutoff. The > monitor goes into a power-save mode, so it appears that as soon as > sysinstall touches whatever devices it touches, the onboard video stops > generating output. I've also tried a serial console, which seems to fail > the same way. There is simply no output to the serial console after > sysinstall starts, and the machine appears to be hung. > > So, this was with 5.0 and 5.1. I will have to try 5.2 and see if it has > the same problem. No one has contacted me about my PR, or even given me > any suggestions about more debugging info that I can gather, so unless > this gets fixed by chance, I suspect that 5.x is just going to orphan a > significant number of machines. Which is a shame, since 5.x would be > clearly superior on a quad Xeon machine than 4.9-RELEASE. > > >>Eric > > > > Tom > Providing a serial console capture when booting with the -hv flags might be interesting. Scott