Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:38:29 -0500 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> Cc: spolyack@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy Message-ID: <1234366709.3500.62.camel@ingress.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <1234363891.15909.35.camel@ompc.insign.local> References: <1234363891.15909.35.camel@ompc.insign.local>
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On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:51 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge > servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x. It went fine and quickly on the There's already discussion about this in the archives. We're aware and working on it. Set: /boo/loader.conf kern.cam.scsi_delay=20000 As a work-around for now. Tracking the megarc memory corruption (and general amr(4) problems with the PERC4) at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128082 ~BAS > poweredge 1950, but it failed completely on the poweredge 1850. > > Facts: > > - boot cd and setup / operation of freebsd 6.x or 7.0 is fine > Message log abstract: > $ uname -v > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun Dec 21 08:31:52 UTC 2008 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > $ dmesg|grep amr > amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2 > amr0: Using 64-bit DMA > amr0: [ITHREAD] > amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller > amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Si> Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM > amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller > amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 > amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a > > - boot cd of 7.1 fails because the installed doesn't see any harddisk. > Message log abstract: > amr0: adapter is busy > amr0: adapter is busy > amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller > > > I also tried to setup 7.0, and then upgrade to 7.1 with freebsd-update, > but then it fails exactly like with the 7.1 boot CD > (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso). Screenshot: > http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg > > BIOS Message about the Controller on system startup: > PowerEdge Expandable RAID COntroller BIOS, (c) 2006 LSI Logic > Corporation > > I'm not sure what I can try next... I'd still like to be able to run > 7.1 on this host as well as on several other old but still fine 1850. Is > my system simply too old? Why is my adapter "busy" under 7.1? What > would you try? I checked the relnotes as well, but saw nothing helpful > about my problem there. > > regards & thanks in advance for any feedback, > Olivier > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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